The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.
The militarism is one of the chief bulwarks of capitalism, and the day that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fall.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labour.
The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America’s future.
The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
The best preparedness is one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them. Nothing is to be gained by the workers from war.
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.
