"I almost became a political journalist, having worked……" — Michael Sandel
"I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate."
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21 Quotes by Michael Sandel
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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…
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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…
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The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the…
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A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that…
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Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that…
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A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society…
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