Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.