Michael Sandel Quotes About Debate

Quotes about: Debate

• 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.

  Michael Sandel

  Needs, Want, Limits

  Michael J. Sandel (2009). “Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?”, p.265, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• 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.

  Michael Sandel

  Philosophy, Moving, Political

  "Michael Sandel: This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

• What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.

  Michael Sandel

  Technology, Fundamentals, Debate

• I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake in the debate over embryonic stem cell research.

  Michael Sandel

  Religious, Thinking, Cells

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I do think it is very important that the religious communities do try to bring their teachings and their insights to bear on the stem cell debate and on the debate about genetic engineering.

  Michael Sandel

  Religious, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• My goal is first of all to promote a public debate about where markets serve the public good and where they don't belong. That's my first goal.

  Michael Sandel

  Goal, Debate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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