Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.