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.

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

What its children become, that will the community become.

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

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.

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