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 have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
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We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them
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.
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Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.
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We have never yet had a Labour Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
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Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
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You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.
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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.
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The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.
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We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
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If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.
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Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.
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