Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

Public service does not necessarily mean service in the House of Commons, and public service is not synonymous with partisan political activity. It comes in a thousand colours, but the common denominator is: it's not about me - it's about we.

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.