Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.