Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.