The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.