We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war..

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good..

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility..

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith..

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy..

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed..

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists c….

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to t….

There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by rel….

I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't reali….

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems..

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not..

There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad relig….

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the import….

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of ….

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it..

Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of natio….

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and n….

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or wi….

Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests w….

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfe….