There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

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.

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