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.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.