“the euro, it seems, is stuck in a political no man's land – trapped between two opposing world views. And the battleground is not economics, but ethics.”

“ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.”

“There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.”

“London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.”

“the problem with philosphy problems is that they don't have proper solutions”

“the problem with philosophy problems is that they don't have proper solutions”

“Leibniz's machine was designed to automate the dreary task of solving moral problems”