The spirit of our age is one in which the prejudices of the past are put behind us, where our diversity is our strength. It is this which is under attack. Moderates are not moderate through weakness but through strength. Now is the time to show it in defence of our common values.

It is important that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to …

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary soc…

It is true that for us art is not an end in itself, we have lost too many of our illusions for that. Art is for us an occasion for social criticism, and for re…

'Our society is besotted by the cult of the ego: books, television programmes, films, literature, magazines, are awash with stories and dramas about personal r…