Now the ordinary Protestant, Jew or Secularist has a stereotype about Catholicism. It consists of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-American Catholicism and, let us say, a Catholicism of O'Connor's "Great Hurrah." Now there are types of Catholicism like that but this doesn't - this doesn't do justice to the genuine relation that Catholicism has had to Democratic Society.

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

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

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.

The fanatic is dangerous.