Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.

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

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

The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable us to understand what more and what else the good life for man is.

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.

There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories. Every action is the bearer and expression of more or less theory-laden beliefs and concepts; every piece of theorizing and every expression of belief is a politcal and moral action.