I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.

It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.