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if a shoemaker takes a piece of raw leather, cuts it, designs it, plans the shoes makes every part of the shoes, turns out a finished product, that represents to him what the piece of sculpturing represents to the artist, there is joy in handicraftsmanship, there is joy in labor.

— Sabotage by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Bitterness in the heart is a very good stimulus for sabotage.

— Sabotage by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

there is the employer's sabotage as well as the worker's sabotage. Employers interfere with the quality of production, they interfere with the quantity of production, they interfere with the supply as well as with the kind of goods for the purpose of increasing their profit. But this form of sabotage, capitalist sabotage, is antisocial, for the reason that it is aimed at the good of the few at the expense of the many, whereas working-class sabotage is distinctly social, it is aimed at the benefit of the many, at the expense of the few.

— Sabotage by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

The comforts we've invented, or that our neighbors have invented, can become bad if you don't always, always, ask what the potential consequences could be.

— Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #3)

It was not so difficult to understand the warped view the Azadians had of what they called “human nature”—the phrase they used whenever they had to justify something inhuman and unnatural

— The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #2)