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

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

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.

I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting?

What does one do about the dead? They live forever.

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

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.