Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but there are particular causes.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

I think that when we believe that something is right, there's a serious ambivalence about it. On one hand, you say, because it's right, it must be victorious. On the other hand, you say, it's right whether it's victorious or not. And this is what I believe about a free society.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.