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

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

Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative relationships of Catholicism to a free society that the average American doesn't fully appreciate.

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.

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

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.