Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

I think that when we believe that something is right, there's a serious ambivalence about it. On one hand, you say, because it's right, it must be victorious. On the other hand, you say, it's right whether it's victorious or not. And this is what I believe about a free society.

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

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.