Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.

[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

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

We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but there are particular causes.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

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