The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

I might say that the debate between atheists and Christians is rather stale to me, because the Christians say, "You must be a Christian, or you must be a religious man, in order to be good," and the atheists will say, "It's beneath the dignity of a free man to bow his knee to a god, as if he were a sinner," or something like that.

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

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