I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.