One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.