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.

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.

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.

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

be a dog, be a jerk, be a devil, be a worst imaginable creature, but never be a good man, for being civilized in chaos is itself a chaos.

True education reveals self-potential, more than just sows ideas.

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough.

We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.