If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we ….

If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it ….

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind..

If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment….

I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the….

It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely pra….

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners..

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult..

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy..

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result..

In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never..

The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and ….

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome..

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease..

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious..

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence..

You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought..

The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absu….

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated..

All I ever wanted to do was act..

Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the b….