We cling in our public life to a brutal hypocrisy. In our century of almost universal violence of humans against fellow humans, and against our natural and cultural commonwealth, hypocrisy has been inescapable because our opposition to violence has been selective or merely fashionable. Some of us who approve of our monstrous military budget and our peacekeeping wars nonetheless deplore domestic violence and think that our society can be pacified by gun control. Some of us are against capital punishment but for abortion. Some of us are against abortion but for capital punishment.

Citizenship Papers (2003) - The Failure of War