Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

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

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.

There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause.