You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.