Man Is Both Strong And Weak, Both

The Stupidity Of The Average Man Will Permit The Oligarch, Whether Economic Or Political, To Hide His Real Purposes From The Scrutiny Of His Fellows And To Withdraw His Activities From Effective Control. Since It Is Impossible To Count On Enough Moral Goodwill Among Those Who Possess Irresponsible Power To Sacrifice It For The Good Of The Whole, It Must Be Destroyed By Coercive Methods And These Will Always Run The Peril Of Introducing New Forms Of Injustice In Place Of Those Abolished.

Since Inequalities Of Privilege Are Greater Than Could Possibly Be Defended Rationally, The Intelligence Of Privileged Groups Is Usually Applied To The Task Of Inventing Specious Proofs For The Theory That Universal Values Spring From, And That General Interests Are Served By, The Special Privileges Which They Hold.

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 Realize The Tremendous Capacity For Civic Righteousness Among Our Jewish People.

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 Religious Sentiment And Thereby Rendered More Impervious To Change.

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 Nations Only By Courting The Prospective Guilt Of The Atomic Bomb.