We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.

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.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

The giant console, high ceilings, and glass windows mean nothing than love from the heart.

He was free-free to choose to swing from a tree for the afternoon rather than mend fences or train horses. He was free to live.

I don't want to be in the spotlight so bad that I'm going to sell my soul, or sell my creativity short.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.

That's the sound we developed, and that's how we played. It took us a while, but we found it.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.