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

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

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

I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice.