Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.
For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.
When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.
I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
It is better not to say “lend.” There is only giving.
Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.
The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
The rich are always afraid.
I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.
He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.
An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can’t risk anybody laughing at them.
Love alone could waken love.
When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls-even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls-without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
A woman’s mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.
To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.