In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Now people are worried not about the prospects of buying new things, but about how to pay for the things they bought yesterday, a year ago or years before. It is, as Americans like to say, "a wholly different kind of ball-game".

'I am insecure' means: I can't cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can't resist them on my own. I need us to join forces, stand shoulder to shoulder, march hand in hand.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.