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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 14 quotes by Michael Sandel Michael J. Sandel (/sænˈdɛl/; born March 5, 1953) is an American political philosopher and a professor at Harvard University. He is best known for the Harvard course "Justice", which is available to view online, and for his critique of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice in his first book, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. Read full biography of Michael Sandel → 1 2 Ctrl → Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different... → 0 I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the... → 0 The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with... → 0 My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important and need to... → 0 If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run... → 0 When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that... → 0 Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the... → 0 To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions. 0 You can't go wrong with fish and chips. 0 One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So... → 0 I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and... → 0 I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible. 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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