Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

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

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.