Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

The prophets never taught that God and history are one, or that whatever happens below reflects the will of God above. Their vision is of man defying God, and God seeking man to reconcile with Him.

Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics. To us a single act of injustice--cheating in business, exploitation of the poor--is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.