Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.