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This is my Achilles heel. If some Internet technician is on the phone with me and he's being irrational and incompetent and stupid, I get really mad and I can sort of feel my blood pressure going up.
Quote by -Martha Nussbaum
Giving children the sense that you always ought to speak up for what's right, even if it costs you something, that's something you can do.
Quote by -Martha Nussbaum
I love fashion, and I simply enjoy good design in clothes and regard that as one of my hobbies.
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I wish a person with a record of competence such as Nitish Kumar would get a chance to lead India.
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Disgust and shame are inherently hierarchical; they set up ranks and orders of human beings. They are also inherently connected with restrictions on liberty in areas of non-harmful conduct.
Quote by -Martha Nussbaum
I'm very upset that the Supreme Court ruled that citizens don't have standing to challenge the faith based initiatives on constitutional grounds.
Quote by -Martha Nussbaum
Most Americans do really think that Muslims all want to take over and they don't want democracy and they want nothing but Islamic law.
Quote by -Martha Nussbaum
People shouldn't be teaching if they break appointments, if they behave in an irresponsible way. I try to be down-to-earth and sensible. I want students to know I'm going to work for all of them and not play favorites and that I'm really going to do my work.
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It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.
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With inheritances, it's really important not to give the impression that you're extorting your children, and one way you can not do that is to make it clear to them that you're not leaving the whole of your estate to them at all, but to various charitable organizations.
Quote by -Martha Nussbaum
In my case, I give a lot to animal welfare because I think that's pretty neglected in America.
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I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.
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At Chicago I offer a course on Emotion, Reason and the Law that law students just love. But I am not there as a lawyer, my job is to teach philosophy.
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There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Quote by -Montesquieu
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Quote by -Montesquieu
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Quote by -Montesquieu
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
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The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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