While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervious to change.

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

If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.