There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

You can't go wrong with fish and chips.

What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.

I am because I feel.

Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.

The Beatles and the Stones are for blowing your mind. The Doors are for afterward, when your mind is already gone . . .

The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

The locker room talk is always that about who can beat who.

The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can't bring down God's house.