Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past