Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.
Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.
No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.
After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.
Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.
Understand one another.
Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.
The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.
Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.
It is characteristic of theistic “tolerance” that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.
True, the movement for women’s rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.
Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.
Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one.
It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.
Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.