It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been the fate of certain types of Protestantism. They get under the control of a White Citizens Council while the Catholic Church has an authoritarian system, yes, in which the Bishop expresses the conscience of the whole Christian community and they say there are some things that you can't do on this matter.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.