It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

Fairy tales are more than true.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.