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

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

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

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and governments work intelligently and far-sightedly for the good of others, they achieve their own prosperity, too.

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

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.