A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates-in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.

In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism that we teach.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.