The Happiness Of Credulity Is A Cheap

Revolutionary Moments Attract Those Who Are Not Good Enough For Established Institutions As Well As Those Who Are Too Good For Them.

It Is A Noteworthy Fact That Kicking And Beating Have Played So Considerable A Part In The Habits Which Necessity Has Imposed On Mankind In Past Ages That The Only Way Of Preventing Civilized Men From Beating And Kicking Their Wives Is To Organize Games In Which They Can Kick And Beat Balls.

Even Under The Most Perfect Social Democracy We Should, Without Communism, Still Be Living Like Hogs, Except That Each Hog Would Get His Fair Share Of Grub.... Whilst We Are Hogs, Let Us At Least Be Well-fed, Healthy, Reciprocally Useful Hogs, Instead Of--well, Instead Of The Sort We Are At Present.

A Child Hasn't A Grown-up Person's Appetite For Affection. A Little Of It Goes A Long Way With Them; And They Like A Good Imitation Of It Better Than The Real Thing, As Every Nurse Knows.

During The Suffragette Revolt Of 1913 I[urged] That What Was Needed Was Not The Vote, But A Constitutional Amendment Enactingthat All Representative Bodies Shall Consist Of Women And Men In Equal Numbers, Whether Elected Or Nominated Or Coopted Or Registered Or Picked Up In The Street Like A Coroner's Jury. In The Case Of Elected Bodies The Only Way Of Effecting This Is By The Coupled Vote. The Representative Unit Must Not Be A Man Or A Woman But A Man And A Woman.