Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.