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The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.

Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.

The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist.

Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.