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. - Upton Sinclair

If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

I used to say to our audiences: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

Marriage and prostitution were two sides of one shield, the predatory man's exploitation of the sex-pleasure. The difference between them was a difference of class. If a woman had money she might dictate her own terms: equality, a life contract, and the legitimacy — that is, the property-rights — of her children. If she had no money, she was a proletarian, and sold herself for an existence.