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.

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.

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.

The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism of the Christian religion; and, unless St. Paul was a woman in disguise, I fail to see how woman is to be blamed for a conception of her place and duty from which she has suffered more than anybody else.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

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