What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone.... It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of a fu...ture. The elements in crisis are the same, there is a fermentation that is identical. The elements are these: a body of men, women and children, hungry; an organization of feudal employers out to break the back of unionization; and the government Labor Board sent to "negotiate" between this hunger and this greed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the hu...miliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All our civilization had meant nothing. The same culture that had nurtured the kindly enlightened people among whom I had been bro...ught up, carried around with it war. Why should I not have known this? I did know it, but I did not believe it. I believed it as we believe we are going to die. Something that is to happen in some remote time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical in...vention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of guerrilla warfare is to establish foci, or liberated areas, in the countryside and to set up small military units w...hich will gradually grow in strength, number and equipment--from squads to companies and regiments, eventually to divisions and armies, as in Yugoslavia and China during the Second World War--in order to fight battles against government troops. In the liberated areas, the guerrillas establish their own institutions, conduct propaganda and engage in other open political activities. None of this applies to terrorists, whose base of operations is in the cities, and who have to operate clandestinely in small units. Any major concentration would immediately expose them to retaliation by the government. The terrorists may be part of a political movement that engages in propaganda and other political activities (such as the IRA and the Basque ETA), but there is a strict division of labor between the legal and the military arms of the movement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing, ...never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Far off she rolled and rolled like a woman in labor... and I thought of those who had crossed her, in antiquity, in nautical trade, in slavery, in war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against t...hat which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, ...use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, n...either shall they learn war any more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »