Michael Sandel Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

  Michael Sandel

  Good Life, Rights, Justice

  Michael J. Sandel (2005). “Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics”, p.151, Harvard University Press

• They say the state should not impose on its citizens a preferred way of life, but should leave them as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

  Michael Sandel

  Liberty, Citizens, Way

  "Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics".

• The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don’t belong.

  Michael Sandel

  Past, Greed, Expansion

  "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets". Book by Michael Sandel, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2012.

• A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values seep into every aspect of human endeavour. It's a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

  Michael Sandel

  Tools, Politics, Way

  Michael J. Sandel (2012). “What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets”, p.13, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• 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 markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.

  Michael Sandel

  Philosophy, Mistake, Thinking

  "Michael Sandel: 'We need to reason about how to value our bodies, human dignity, teaching and learning'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2012.

• 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 terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.

  Michael Sandel

  Frustration, Japan, Europe

• 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

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