To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.