So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.