The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.