"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

"But the sense of humour remains healthy only when it deals with immediate issues and faces the obvious and surface ir…"

"The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men."

"This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, env…"

"Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies.…"

"The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes f…"

"Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the ne…"

"Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others."

"The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, t…"

"While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to c…"