The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.