There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

Beheading videos [are] not aimed at people in totalitarian regimes who can't do anything about it.