As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

All social change comes from the passion of individuals.