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.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead of a natural right. Women are simply held to be less entitled to this privilege than men.

What its children become, that will the community become.

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.

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