For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

Nowadays the job of the judge is not to do justice. The judge is more of a functionary . He's like a civil servant whose job is to interpret words written down by another branch of the government, whether those words are just or not.