What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

Freedom does not mean license.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.