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Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. We have not yet found the right road to conquering ourselves and our environment.

— Dora Russell The Right to Be Happy (1927)

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

The Religion of the Machine Age (1983)

It has taken us centuries of thought and mockery to shake the medieval system; thought and mockery here and now are required to prevent the mechanists from building another.

The Right to Be Happy (1927)

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

Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent.

The Right to Be Happy (1927)

Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.

The Right to Be Happy (1927)

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