The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

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

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.

One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

The fanatic is dangerous.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.