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

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

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

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.