What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.