Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards or holiday...
To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior...
For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
I'm not particularly a feminist but if you get women off the animal cycle of...
There are people who cannot forget as neither do I the lesson of the years...
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo...
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other as I do when the Christians...
Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record -...
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is...
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share...
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they...
I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
I don't think Romney is wacky at all but religion makes intelligent people...
Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
Religion is compulsory in English schools you know.
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the...
In the grip of a neurological disorder I am fast losing control of words...
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American...
The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical...
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be...
I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
Of course I do everything for money.
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense...
A lot of people because of my contempt for the false consolations of...
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't...
The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that...
I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class apart from...
The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect...
One of the great questions of philosophy is do we innately have morality or...
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just...
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
A good day is one where I can not just read a book but write a review of it....
Well I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people...
Well we can't say any more than we can say there is no god there is no...
