It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

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

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.