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.

If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust itself to the complexities of the modern environment.

The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.

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

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

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.

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.