Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

I don't believe there is such a thing as 'moderate Islam.' I think it's better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a scholarly enterprise that had neither any simple, nor any single, moral or political agenda to promote. Its principal goal became one of deepening our understanding of how humans have been affected by their natural environment through time and, conversely, how they have affected that environment and with what results.

I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.

We're never going to come to a moment where all of us who claim to be feminists can agree about what the first priority of feminism is.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.