The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet..

We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common pre….

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary..

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profoun….

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses..

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion..

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled..

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments..

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity..

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative ….

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God..

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one..

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks..

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky..

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law..

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned..

Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing vi….

Man has always been his own most vexing problem..

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems..

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument..

The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking adv….