Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves.

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.