Charles Taylor Quotes

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

Sanders was a friend of chickens.

The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.

[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.