You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.