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I intend to do what little one man can do to awaken the public conscience, and in the meantime I am not frightened by your menaces.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
The Profits of Religion (1918)
Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!
Love's Pilgrimage (1911)
What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola.
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
Mammonart - an Essay in Economic Interpretation Ch. 2 Who Owns the Artists? (1925)
Men of unlimited means live lives of unbridled lust, and then, in their old age, they are helpless victims of their own impulses.
I know you are brave and unselfish people, making sacrifices for a great principle but I cannot join you.
An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label.
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
The Profits of Religion (1918)
Jesus, as we know, answered and said "Get thee behind me, Satan!" And he really meant it; he would have nothing to do with worldly glory, with "temporal power;" he chose the career of a revolutionary agitator, and died the death of a disturber of the peace.
The Profits of Religion (1918)
Private ownership of tools, a basis of freedom when tools are simple becomes a basis of enslavement when tools are complex.
I, Governor of California and How I Ended Poverty (1933)
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
The story of the hero who slays the devouring dragon was not merely a symbol of day and night, of summer and winter; it was a literal explanation of the phenomena, it was the science of early times.
The Profits of Religion (1918)
Government oppressed the body of the wage-slave, but Religion oppressed his mind, and poisoned the stream of progress at its source.
The Jungle (1906)
I'm going to stop squandering money for things I don't want. I'm going to stop accepting invitations, and meeting people I don't like and don't want to know.
Metropolis (1908)
He failed to get Jesus, but he came again, to get Jesus' church.
The Profits of Religion (1918)
I am a person who has never used violence himself. My present opinion is that people who have obtained the ballot should use it and solve their problems in that way.
I say if Germany be allowed to win this war — then we in America shall have to drop every other activity and devote the next twenty or thirty years to preparing for a last-ditch defence of the democratic principle.