It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and pain. - Upton Sinclair

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

"Of late years, however, since his children were growing up, he had begun to value respectability, and had had himself made a magistrate; a position for which he was admirably fitted, because of his strong conservatism and his contempt for "foreigners.