Society and the World

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake … A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

This is Red Hook, not Sicily … This is the gullet of New York swallowing the tonnage of the world.

This is Red Hook, not Sicily … This is the gullet of New York swallowing the tonnage of the world.

He’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

He’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Justice denied in Massachusetts.

Justice denied in Massachusetts.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

The Conservatives … being by the law of their existence the stupidest party.

I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.