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

Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

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

The fanatic is dangerous.