Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition

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

We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

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

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.

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