"Older children always sit down to paint or write after they have seen a picture or read a story that appeals to them,…"

"Socialism is not a bomb thrown at the natural institution of society, but a well-considered medicine for a diseased c…"

"I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I exp…"

"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide."

"Art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe."

"It is not until a community or an individual has advanced a fair distance along the path of civilisation and shows by…"

"For one cannot serve the national spirit merely by getting a lump in the throat whenever one catches sight of the Uni…"

"There have been many legends invented about Charlemagne, but he was no legend. Out of the shattered ruins of the anci…"

"It would seem … that man has been shocked by the war into forgetting how to be a political animal. This suspicion is …"

"I am for the legal government of Republican Spain against Franco, since Spain herself, at a properly conducted electi…"