"I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading."

“The making of a peacenik, Mark Bostridge, The Guardian, 30 August 2003”

“Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.”

“We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.”

“All that a pacifist can undertake—but it is a very great deal—is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.”

“I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.”

“It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.”