All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."

I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

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