I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

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

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.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor.

If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

Men always marry younger girls, but sometimes when a women who's very mature marries a younger man, she's criticized. It needs to be corrected.

Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.