It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.
How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion
one sex of voice in public matters, and that we could in no way so increase the attention , the intelligence and the devotion which may be brought to the solution of social problems as by enfranchising our women.
Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.
I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, that must be appealed to. Envy is akin to admiration, and it is the admiration that the rich and powerful excite which secures the perpetuation of aristocracies.
The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS.
I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on. ' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.
I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.
You must first put something into your life before you can get something out of it.