Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.