Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.