We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

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.

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

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

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

I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.