It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
I am an agnostic as to the question of God.
I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don’t sleep in yours.
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
Sympathy is the child of imagination.