The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.