Learn Through Quotations

“Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.”

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”

“War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.”

“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”

“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 no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.”

“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”

“Where it is a duty to worship the Sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”

“God created sex. Priests created marriage.”

“Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.”

“Either war is obsolete or men are.”

“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.”

“All socialism involves slavery.”

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

“The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.”

“Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”

“In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.”

“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”

“One religion is as true as another.”

“Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?”

“Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?”

“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”

“War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.”

“Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.”

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”