I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs … - Eugene V. Debs

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Eugene V. Debs

I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

Community, Condemn, Insanity, Lunatic, Men, Robs

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The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

Character, Gun, Guns, Index, Unwittingly, Wall

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.

Battle, Class, Fought, Lose, Master, War

The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.

Arise, Class, Party, Principles, Struggle

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

Days, Man, Men, Money, Order, Women

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Class, Control, Government, Power, Scale, Scales

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Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Blessing, Cares, Grief, Stand, Two, Wretched

Rudolf Rocker

Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever command men to fashion the first tools, first use fire, invent the telescope and the steam engine, or compose the Iliad. Cultural values do not arise by direction of higher authorities. They cannot be compelled by dictates nor called into life by the resolution of legislative assemblies.

Created, Culture, Fashion, Fire, Life, Men

Frederick Banting

If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained.

Blood, Diet, Intake, Requirement, Sugar, Tolerance

J. W. N. Sullivan

It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

Art, Function, Real, Science

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