As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

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

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.