I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.
Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.
We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.
Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.
Curiosity must be kept alive.
It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.
What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child’s education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.
All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.
Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.