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

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.

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

To imagine is to risk being mentally blind.

It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

I wanted it for how it made me feel, regardless of how little it cared for me. Do whatever you want -- just give me the bliss.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.

You can't change in your own power. If you feel overwhelmed by something bigger than you, let the one who is bigger than all things be the power you need in your weakness.

Unity cannot be taken for granted.

Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.