Democracy’s Discontent Quotes

“Toleration and freedom and fairness are values too, and they can hardly be defended by the claim that no values can be defended. So it is a mistake to affirm...that all values are merely subjective.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy

“Of all the Whig projects of moral and civic improvement, their most ambitious instrument of republican soulcraft was the public school. As Horace Mann, the first secretary of the Board of Education of Massachusetts, explained, if all were to share in governing, then true to the republican tradition, all would have to be equipped with the requisite moral and intellectual resources: “with universal suffrage, there must be universal elevation of character, intellectual and moral, or there will be universal mismanagement and calamity.” The question whether human beings are capable of self-government admits only a conditional answer; they are capable insofar as they possess the intelligence and goodness and breadth of view to govern on behalf of the public good. “But men are not born in the full possession of such an ability,” nor do they necessarily develop it as they grow to adulthood.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Democracy’s Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times

“Depender de las grandes farmacéuticas significa pagar más por fármacos que salvan vidas.”
― Michael J. Sandel, El descontento democrático: En busca de una filosofía pública

“La financiación de las campañas electorales y las hordas de representantes de los lobbies dan a las grandes corporaciones y a las personas ricas poder suficiente para deformar las reglas a su favor.”
― Michael J. Sandel, El descontento democrático: En busca de una filosofía pública