Quotes from Dora Russell

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.