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.

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.

As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.