Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country`s pride.

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.