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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.