Michael Sandel Quotes on Justice
Michael Sandel is an American political philosopher, professor at Harvard University, and one of the most widely read public philosophers of our time. This page collects quotes attributed to Michael Sandel on the topic of justice, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Michael Sandel:
“We cannot reason our way to justice without reasoning together about the good.”
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Attributed to Michael Sandel:
“Some things money should not buy.”
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Attributed to Michael Sandel:
“A meritocracy that is not also humble is a tyranny.”
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Attributed to Michael Sandel:
“Justice is not just about the right way to distribute things; it is about the right way to value them.”
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“This liberalism says, in other words, that what makes the just society just is not the telos or purpose or end at which it aims, but precisely its refusal to choose in advance among competing purposes and ends. In its constitution and its laws, the just society seeks to provide a framework within which its citizens can pursue their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others”
Michael J. Sandel, "The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self" (1984)