religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

What I believe is a process rather than a finality.

I was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was the first question. None, I am an atheist. Atheism is prohibited here. You will have to go to church. I replied that I would do nothing of the kind. I did not believe in anything the Church stood for and, not being a hypocrite, I would not attend.