Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Charm which means the power to effect work without employing brute force is indispensable to women. Charm is a womans strength just as strength is a mans charm.

Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life it is life itself.

The husband by primitive instinct partly certainly by ancient tradition regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.