A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure of a great many secret emotions: "Yes, a woman must be pretty if she is to please the men. A man is much better off. As long as he has five straight limbs, he needs no more!"

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.