Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.

Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision...That is the sort of time we live in now. We...live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our uncertain feet.

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.