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.

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.

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

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

The human body is the best work of art.

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It’s a lack of resources.

Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all?

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.

I know a lot of successful people and none of them are stupid.

Open your mind before you open your mouth