Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well.