In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, "If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you'd be a true Christian".

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.