“We owe our fellow citizens something better than an institutionalstructure that allows their fates to depend so deeply on the bruteluck of class origin.”

“We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.”

“To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't. ”

“We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.”

“A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make citizens.”

“Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves. ”