The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind, nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up.

We have the ability to stand up faster than we fall.

Whole world is not looking for religion, it is looking for its own safe side.

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

I feel quite proud to be an ambassador for women who realize that being fit is better than being skinny.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

I really don't look at my past and I really don't look too much to the future because I find that's sort of redundant. I really live right in the present. I live right in the now.

The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need.

Shane settled his flamethrower more comfortably on his shoulders. “Ladies? After you.” “Rude,” Claire said. “I was being polite!” “Not when you have a flamethrower.