There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.