Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolute….

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men..

The fanatic is dangerous..

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary..

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state..

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by ….

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Justice….

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

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they com….

The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret t….

I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man a radical freedom, and this fr….

The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reacti….

Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, re….

Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative re….

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

The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this ster….

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, r….

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions..

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may res….

A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a sec….

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it..