“There is a difficult balance between personal liberty and group liberty and the needs of national security. Wherever the two come into serious conflict there are difficult choices and they will never be easily made. “
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The Most Reverend Professor Rowan Williams
“For any contemporary society, universal human rights are crucial. Every citizen needs to be assured that they have the same level of redress, the same level of justice, guaranteed.”
Professor Lord Robert Winston
“If you don’t act within the law even if you don’t agree with it, you run the risk of having anarchy. It’s as simple as that, and if you don’t agree with the law then you have every right to try and change it and in a free society you can demonstrate against it. “
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
“If you belong to a supranational body, such as the European Union, there must be a bit of give and take. You gain a lot of it, but it probably also means that there are times in which we don’t get our ways. We have to do what the rest of Europe has decided it is ok. “
Professor Linda Woodhead
“I absolutely love Parliamentary democracy. There is no better alternative. It is the best system we have devised, I am extremely privileged to live under one and I am committed to it.”
Baroness Haleh Afshar
“If you believe that God is beyond perception and we all have our own quest then that’s all right. So there isn’t a faith which I believe is the right or the correct faith, I think that people of faith are on the same quest.”
The Reverend Dr Will Adam
“There is much more tolerance of diversity in religious belief and practice. Whether that leads to equality depends on where you are and what you are doing.”
Professor Norman Doe
“Moral duty to vote? Absolutely yes. I think it is an estoppel thing. How can you go and complain if you have not contributed to the process? It is as simple as that… estoppel.”
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell
“I don’t think religion has complete ownership of moral positions. I think most people, religious or not, have strong moral views.”
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