Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

We experience a new life with divine encounter.

Our God is a great God. Indeed, He is the God of wonders.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.