If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when par….

The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle ….

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….

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….

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..

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

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

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..

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….

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

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….