... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without b….

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings..

English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the sp….

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin..

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war..

If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social interco….

When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if….

This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is the enemy of democrac….

I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that th….

All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----….

What if all the forces of society were bent upon developing [poor] children? What if society's business were making people insteadof profits? How muc….

It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their….

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do..

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women..

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world.

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married..

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair..