Giving Quote by Martha C. Nussbaum Download Open image “A person in torment is not going to give you anything.” — Martha C. Nussbaum ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Giving Persons Suffering Torment
It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You can't keep giving someone everything if you get nothing in return. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons. — John Webster Copy Share Image
I think that's what we really need in America, for people to hear each other. And I think philosophy could do a little bit… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
If you really do want to increase women's status, you could focus on just that, but you'd probably better focus also on women's education.… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I do think there's a lot of bad writing, and I worry about that in philosophy. I worry about it even more in literary… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
With the rise of capitalism, it became more obvious that people pursue individual self-interest. The great nationalist in Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, a wonderful philosopher,… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The EU might have become a large federal nation. But they would have had to do things differently. Number one, they would've had to… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The thing that I find so bad about anger is the desire for payback. Of course, it is very human to wish for revenge.… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The GDP approach doesn't address many aspects of human life: health, education, political liberty, religious liberty, employment opportunities. And these are not all that… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
