Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

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

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.

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