When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.