We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.