The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

She glanced at her watch, reminding herself who she was.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

If you can teach me a new word I'll walk all the way to China to get it.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

I don't have a grand strategy for my career. I just look for good material, and good stories. I look for good scripts.

I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?

I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

And who knows which is which and who is who.

Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it." (divergent pg.138)