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

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervious to change.

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

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.