"Of all the questions we can ask ourselves the most important is: how is one best to live?"

"A civilized society is one which never ceases having a discussion with itself about what human life should best be."

"Folly tends to predominate over wisdom because it is usually easier to understand and more convenient (or exciting) t…"

"The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social…"

"Moral panics occur because the increased availability of information about what happens in our society is not matched…"

"New and challenging moral dilemmas are always likely to arise, so we need to try to make ourselves the kind of people…"

"Emancipation is always at risk from the usual sources—demagogues, civil and international war, the tenure that supers…"

"The claim is that educating moral sensibility through imagination has a general tendency, not a universal effect."

"Symbols have the unfortunate power to acquire the importance of what they symbolise."

"On the best view, justice is fairness."