For Democracy Is A Method

I Might Say That The Debate Between Atheists And Christians Is Rather Stale To Me, Because The Christians Say, "you Must Be A Christian, Or You Must Be A Religious Man, In Order To Be Good," And The Atheists Will Say, "it's Beneath The Dignity Of A Free Man To Bow His Knee To A God, As If He Were A Sinner," Or Something Like That.

God, Give Us Grace To Accept With Serenity The Things That Cannot Be Changed, Courage To Change The Things Which Should Be Changed, And The Wisdom To Distinguish The One From The Other. This Prayer Was First Printed In A Monthly Bulletin Of The Federal Council Of Churches And Has Become Enormously Popular. It Has Been Circulated In Millions Of Copies.

Marxism Was The Social Creed And The Social Cry Of Those Classes Who Knew By Their Miseries That The Creed Of The Liberal Optimists Was S Snare And A Delusion... Liberalism And Marxism Share A Common Illusion Of The "children Of Light." Neither Understands Property As A Form Of Power Which Can Be Used In Either Its Individual Or Its Social Form As An Instrument Of Particular Interest Against The General Interest.

One Of The Most Pathetic Aspects Of Human History Is That Every Civilization Expresses Itself Most Pretentiously, Compounds Its Partial And Universal Values Most Convincingly, And Claims Immortality For Its Finite Existence At The Very Moment When The Decay Which Leads To Death Has Already Begun.

History May Defeat The Christ But It Nevertheless Points To Him As The Law Of Life.