'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.