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..

When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are not long in coming t….

There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there is therefore no relations….

What its children become, that will the community become..

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live..

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

real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearanc….

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.….

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is reall….

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries..

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

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..

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody..

The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of the….

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

. . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual….

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly..

Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescrib….

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..

If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corrup….