My dear woman, ... ever since the Phoenicians invented money there has been only one answer to that question.

First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the world.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.