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> [“The descent of sport into spectacle is not unique to the age of genetic engineering. But it illustrates how performance-enhancing technologies, genetic or otherwise, can erode the part of athletic and artistic performance that celebrates natural talents and gifts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/the-descent-of-sport-into-spectacle-is-not-unique-to-the-age-of/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

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## More by Michael J. Sandel

> [ “\[T\]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value \[...\] but its value consists precisely in its… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/t-he-commitment-to-a-framework-neutral-among-ends-can-be-seen-as-a/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“Philosophy is a distancing, if not debilitating, activity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/philosophy-is-a-distancing-if-not-debilitating-activity/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/moral-excellence-does-not-consist-in-aggregating-pleasures-and-pains/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“Toleration and freedom and fairness are values too, and they can hardly be defended by the claim that no values can be defended. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/toleration-and-freedom-and-fairness-are-values-too-and-they-can/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/the-moral-worth-of-an-action-consists-not-in-the-consequences-that/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“And so, in the end, the question of markets is really a question about how we want to live together. Do we want a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/and-so-in-the-end-the-question-of-markets-is-really-a-question-about/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“Markets express and promote certain attitudes to the goods being exchanged.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/markets-express-and-promote-certain-attitudes-to-the-goods-being/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of reason. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/we-re-not-only-sentient-beings-governed-by-the-pleasure-and-pain/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know; there's an irony: the difficulty consisted in this course is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/philosophy-teaches-us-and-unsettles-us-by-confronting-us-with-what-we/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“about runaway trolleys!” This is an example of what Kant would call heteronomous determination —doing something for the sake of something else, for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/about-runaway-trolleys-this-is-an-example-of-what-kant-would-call/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/outrage-is-the-special-kind-of-anger-you-feel-when-you-believe-that/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/a-philosophy-untouched-by-the-shadows-on-the-wall-can-only-yield-a/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/greed-that-preys-on-human-misery/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“A growing body of work in social psychology offers a possible explanation for this commercialization effect. These studies highlight the difference between intrinsic motivations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/a-growing-body-of-work-in-social-psychology-offers-a-possible/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

> [“The descent of sport into spectacle is not unique to the age of genetic engineering. But it illustrates how performance-enhancing technologies, genetic or otherwise,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sandel/the-descent-of-sport-into-spectacle-is-not-unique-to-the-age-of/)

[Michael J. Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sandel/)

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