Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.