Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. – Benjamin R. Barber

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. – George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant, 1950