“Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right — two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.”

“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights”

“Education is the art of making man ethical”

“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”

“When a father inquired about the best method of educating his son in ethical conduct, a Pythagorean replied: "Make him a citizen of a state with good laws”

“People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.”

“Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights...”