I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.

The means to laying up treasure in heaven is by giving to the poor.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

Why only twelve disciples? Go out and get thousands.

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.