Michael Sandel Quotes

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

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• Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
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  • Compromise

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Hate
  • Hear
  • Less Is More

• As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Change

• I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Gardening

• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  

  Cao Cao
  • World
  • Me
  • Rather

• I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Period

• I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Game
  • Want
  • Humble

• You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Hollywood

• We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • People
  • Poor
  • Poor People

• Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

  

  Ovid
  • Money
  • Man
  • Lies

• I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

  

  Barney Frank
  • More
  • Become
  • Even

• Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

  

  Joe Baca
  • Important
  • Children
  • America

• It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

  

  Little Richard
  • Success
  • Education
  • Poverty

• In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Female

• Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.

  

  Adele
  • Beauty
  • Wear

• Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Joy
  • Purpose
  • Choosing

• Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Success
  • Environment

• A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.

  

  Joseph McCabe
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Act

• Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Knowledge
  • Generate
  • Human Power

• For any business, large or small, not to have an e-commerce strategy is a big mistake.

  

  William M. Daley
  • Mistake
  • Bigs
  • Strategy

• We went through the records and we found over five hundred of his patients who were alive and well five years after their treatment, with no cancer. And Dr. Burton didn't selectively give us these. These were "take what you want. Here are the patients I treated." So there was statistical improvement - more so than any cancer institution in the United States could show.

  

  Gary Null
  • Cancer
  • Records
  • Alive

• 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
  • Social
  • Activity
  • Debate