“Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.”

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.

The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.

We struggled with it at Newcastle and we were not alone in that among the English clubs.