If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. ... The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wi…

Christ said 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,' and when asked 'who is my neighbour?' went on to the parable of the Good Samaritan. If you wish to under…

Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to g…

In 1987, he wrote in his foreword to If I Were an Animal that 'In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contr…

Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure... It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intellige…