Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individua….

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love..

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain hav….

Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feel….

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time..

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty..

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality..

All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer..

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present..

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will n….

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of t….

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human..

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-t….

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of….

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content..

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy..

The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only ….

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution..

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination..

The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosi….

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract..