Quotes by : A.C. Grayling

A mature society is one that reserves its moral outrage for what really matters: poverty and preventable....

Without free speech one cannot claim other liberties, or defend them when they are attacked. Without....

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little....

Those who think that modern times are wickeder than previous times are apt to identify the cause as the....

Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they....

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for....

The best of what we are lies in what we hope to be

Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different....

. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, ‘Do I or do I not wish....

For the grace of bearing life's inevitable evils is itself agood, and makes goodness arise even from....