If the child was helpless, was the grown up person, man or woman, in a much better position? - Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

The best and the worst things that men do they do in the name of a religion. Some have supposed that only supernatural religion could mislead. The history of our own time shows that if men no longer believe in God they will make themselves gods of Power, of Evolution, of the Race, the Nation, or the State. In the name of such gods will they drench a continent with blood, and the youth will offer themselves up as willing martyrs.

True consent is free consent, and full freedom of consent implies equality on the part of both parties to bargain.

At all times men have lived in societies, and ties of kinship and of simple neighbourhood underlie every form of social organization.