War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

The peoples of the earth are one family.

The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.

The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings.they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.