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

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

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

This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.

There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had a religion of their own in my youth. These were liberals who believed in the idea of progress or they were Marxists. Both of these secular religions have broken down.