I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.