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

I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

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

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

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.