We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be.

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.

I wish you couldn't figure me out, but you'd always want to know what I was about

I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

I want to do everything with you

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

My parents went through hell and back. They came to America with suitcases and a family of seven and $250, and that's it.

Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

Business is a cobweb of human relationships

The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.