Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head.

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.

The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.