Judith N. Shklar famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It seems to me that liberal and humane people, of whom there are many among us, would, if they were asked to rank the vices, put cruelty first. Intuitively they would choose cruelty as the worst thing we do.
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To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.
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Every adult should be able to make as many effective decisions without fear or favor about as many aspects of her or his life as is compatible with the like freedom of every other adult. That belief is the original and only defensible meaning of liberalism.
-- Judith N. Shklar
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
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For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
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If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
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