For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

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

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.