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.

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.

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 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.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

Are you gonna be tough, or are you going to be tough?

I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

The things that are the most valuable are often the ones you don't even know exist. -- Xavier, The Gatekeeper

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.