"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."

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

Michael Sandel

#Good Life Quotes #Rights Quotes #Justice Quotes

“It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.”
“Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.27, Oneworld Publications
“We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.”
“An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.”

Source : Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”
“There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?”
“Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.”

Source : Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.312, Vintage
“It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.”
“If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.”

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