"Humanism is a secular religion thrown together from the decaying scraps of Christian myth." (31)"Postmodernism is just the latest fad in anthropocentrism." (55)
"Genocide is as human as art or prayer". (91)
"Justice is an artefact of custom". (103)
"Choice has become a fetish; but the mark of a fetish is that it is unchosen." (110)
"We think of modernity as an idea in the social sciences, when actually it is the last hiding place of 'morality'." (173)
"Action preserves a sense of self-identity that reflection dispels". (194)
