Martha Nussbaum

It's always been intriguing to me, the loveability of mortality.

— Martha Nussbaum

If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience.

— Martha Nussbaum

When I am disgusted by certain American politicians, I fantasize moving away to Finland - a country in which I have worked…

— Martha Nussbaum

In my case, I give a lot to animal welfare because I think that's pretty neglected in America.

— Martha Nussbaum

Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and…

— Martha Nussbaum

I think a lot of people get hope through civic organizations and through their churches.

— Martha Nussbaum

Teaching has always been a very important part of my life. It is one of the ways I contribute to society. It…

— Martha Nussbaum

It's always easier for people to face backward than to face forward.

— Martha Nussbaum

Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.

— Martha Nussbaum

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things…

— Martha Nussbaum

There's nothing illogical, it seems to me, about saying, 'I am going to care deeply about my work and my writing. I'm…

— Martha Nussbaum

I think that Muslims are criticised all around the world.

— Martha Nussbaum

Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

— Martha Nussbaum

I'd like to be a student in Rabindranath Tagore's school in Santiniketan in around 1915, dancing in the dance-dramas he wrote.

— Martha Nussbaum

“Conception and form are bound together; finding and shaping the words is a matter of finding the appropriate...fit between conception and expression.”

— Martha Nussbaum

Mob rule is always extremely dangerous for the future of democracy.

— Martha Nussbaum

Look at the great tradition of Western political philosophy. Those people were all immersed in revolutionary movements. Most weren't career academics -…

— Martha Nussbaum

“It seems to me that good philosophy will always have a place in the investigation of any matter of deep human importance,…

— Martha Nussbaum

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

— Martha Nussbaum

I have spent a lot of my career working on normative political philosophy, developing the 'capabilities approach' to social justice. I have…

— Martha Nussbaum

My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by…

— Martha Nussbaum

I'm very passionate about political issues, but I also think that listening to people who disagree is extremely important, and I try…

— Martha Nussbaum

“An education is truly “fitted for freedom” only if it is such as to produce free citizens, citizens who are free not…

— Martha Nussbaum

My own students say they don't trust anyone who voted for Trump. How can you have a democracy with that?

— Martha Nussbaum

We have fear as soon as we are born, we are born into a state of physical helplessness.

— Martha Nussbaum