"Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity.……" — Michael Sandel
"Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets."
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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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A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society…
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The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real…
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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