No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.