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.

I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts.

Comfort is bought at too high a price.

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.