Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.