Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

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

There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervious to change.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.