All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

Discipline is more about self-control through your inner strength and less about restriction.

There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life.

I never went into business to make money.

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.

Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

I wish that people had an opportunity to watch me 24/7, like on 'Big Brother.' You'd see a person who is quiet and reserved and very analytical - a huge observer.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.