Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful

Live with dignity or die getting it.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.

We live by what we believe not but what we see.

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.

I always thought I was really thick.

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

Be humble and say okay, all right, I have to prep myself. So everybody prepped, and we finished the film [Valerian ] four days before the end.

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.