"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."

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

Michael Sandel

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“But there would be no confrontation the next day. And for Tommy Williams, there would be no school, either. Because the moment he walked through the gap in the stones to leave the circle, something quiet unexpected happened. Tommy, holding tightly on to his rock, took the step that divided the inside of the circle from the outside - and disappeared. The woods suddenly felt colder than usual. The darkness hung more heavily. The amber was gone - and now nothing would ever be the same.”
“If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the Old Order and defend the status quo, if necessary, by force. In the words of the standard police bulletin known to all radio listeners, These men are armed -and they may be dangerous.”
“I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.”
“If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you start by imagining it.”
“Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.”

Source : "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.
“The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.”
“So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.”

Source : Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.11
“I'd choose truth over cake but I'd try to find a way to get both to be honest.”

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