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The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be
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Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering…
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Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.
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Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at…
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The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of…
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A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to…
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There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement,…
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Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the…
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[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their…
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First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these…
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Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social…
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A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a…
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
— Aristotle
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are…
— Jane Austen
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to…
— Teresa of Avila
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
— Saul Bellow
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
— Josh Billings
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When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of…
— Tony Campolo
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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent…
— Jimmy Carter
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Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.
— Richard S. Salant
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must…
— Unknown Author
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