Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow. Advancement - improvement in conditions - is the order of things in a society of equals.

I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything-not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught-all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.