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"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
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"The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day."

"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
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"It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay."

"It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here."

"The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day."

"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."

"Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness."

"Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments."

"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."

"Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008."

"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."

"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."
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