All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

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

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

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.