I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.

As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.

The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state.