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.

Comfort is bought at too high a price.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

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.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

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

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.