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

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.

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.