Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

Sometimes, it becomes necessary for you to hit the bottom, and hit really hard that it awakens you.

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

I don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing.

At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!'

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

He who dies for his country will live in eternity.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.