To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.