There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.