Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

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.

Love is the strongest strength of the soul.

Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us.

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.

Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.