Self-righteousness Is The Inevitable Fruit

Ultimately Freedom Is Necessary For A Society, Because Every Despotic Society - For Instance, The Russian Society - Lives On The Basis Of A Rather Implausible Dogma - The Marxist Dogma Of World Redemption Through Communism.

It Is My Strong Conviction That A Realist Conception Of Human Nature Should Be Made A Servant Of An Ethic Of Progressive Justice And Should Not Be Made Into A Bastion Of Conservatism, Particularly A Conservatism Which Defends Unjust Privileges.

Our Dreams Of Bringing The Whole Of Human History Under The Control Of The Human Will Are Ironically Refuted By The Fact That No Group Of Idealists Can Easily Move The Pattern Of History Toward The Desired Goal Of Peace And Justice. The Recalcitrant Forces In The Historical Drama Have A Power And Persistence Beyond Our Reckoning.

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 Has Been A Religious Revival Because - Let Me Put It Like This, The People That Weren't Traditionally Religious, Conventionally Religious, Had A Religion Of Their Own In My Youth. These Were Liberals Who Believed In The Idea Of Progress Or They Were Marxists. Both Of These Secular Religions Have Broken Down.