The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize that we and the Russians are in a common predicament. That would be religious in the sense, "Judge not lest you be judged."

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.