I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. I… - Karen Armstrong

I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant.

I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest of ways, we find it impossible... to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet?

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

Since all premodern state ideology was inseparable from religion, warfare inevitably acquired a sacral element.

We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths that help us to realise the importance of compassion, which is not always regarded as sufficiently productive or efficient in our pragmatic, rational world.