The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

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.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control. Since it is impossible to count on enough moral goodwill among those who possess irresponsible power to sacrifice it for the good of the whole, it must be destroyed by coercive methods and these will always run the peril of introducing new forms of injustice in place of those abolished.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.