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

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.

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

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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

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

I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.