Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

For [Karl] Marx what counts is man. He is the root of everything;while for capitalism, the aim are things, profit, and man is only a means to gain them. As an authentically religious individual, Marx could not be other than against "religion".

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

Freedom does not mean license.

. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.