To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

You can't go wrong with fish and chips.

What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.

The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don’t belong.

I live not in myself, but I becomePortion of that around me: and to meHigh mountains are a feeling, but the humof human cities torture.

Live like the season is ending and the birds are leaving, fight against the winds of the fall like the last leave.

This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.