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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Our magazine covers frequently feature the immoral, the perverted, the psychologically sick. Sin is “in.” People don’t like to be told they are sinners.

Some 1.2 billion people in the world still have too little to eat

The only reason that the devil can read scripture, is that it was written with him in mind.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.

The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?

[My] style evolved, not changed, but I think evolved as I grew and matured. I don't think there was any kind of change I did in a deliberate way - I think I just evolved.

Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick.

If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.

Better be killed than frightened to death.