Comfort is bought at too high a price.

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 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.

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

That's all nonsense, " said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?

For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

There are already current laws on the books and there are - and jurisdictions. The IRS can come in and do any kind of investigation of a person.

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.