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

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.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

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.

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.