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.

Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.

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.

One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

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.