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Martha Nussbaum Quotes
Martha Nussbaum Quotes
Martha Nussbaum
American
Philosopher
Born:
1947
Fear
Good
Life
People
Think
You
I think that it's rational to fear your own death or to fear harm to your family.
Martha Nussbaum
Death
Family
Fear
Own
Think
I Think
Rational
Your
Harm
I think Americans did learn that you just are not going to be able to live well if you subordinate people on the grounds of their religion.
Martha Nussbaum
Religion
You
People
Live
Think
I Think
Able
Well
Learn
Subordinate
American
Did
Going
Just
Grounds
This is true across every single society; we project grossness onto a racial or gender subgroup or caste. A big part of social subordination and discrimination is to ascribe hyper-animality to other groups and use that as an excuse for subordinating them further.
Martha Nussbaum
Gender
Single
Big
Every
Society
Other
Project
Further
Caste
Onto
Part
True
Excuse
Discrimination
Subordination
Big Part
Ascribe
Social
Them
Racial
Across
Use
Groups
It's always been intriguing to me, the loveability of mortality.
Martha Nussbaum
Me
Intriguing
Mortality
Always
Been
Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.
Martha Nussbaum
You
Fear
Will
Easily
Rhetoric
Manipulated
Requires
Belief
Harmed
Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the pain of others, all these are good reasons to make laws that protect people in their rights.
Martha Nussbaum
Good
Justice
Anger
Rights
People
Emotions
Law
Fear
Safety
Compassion
Pain
Others
Our
Some
Laws
Wrongdoing
Protect
Make
Principles
Essential
Public
Reasons
My own students say they don't trust anyone who voted for Trump. How can you have a democracy with that?
Martha Nussbaum
Democracy
You
Trust
Own
Say
My Own
Students
Voted
How
Trump
Anyone
Who
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.
Martha Nussbaum
Democracy
Law
Nothing
Think
Muslims
Take
Over
Most
Islamic
American
Want
Really
Among the good and decent men, some are unprepared for the surprises of life, and their good intentions run aground when confronted with issues like child care.
Martha Nussbaum
Life
Good
Care
Men
Good Intentions
Run
Unprepared
Some
Like
Issues
Surprises
Child
Child Care
Decent
Intentions
Confronted
Among
There's nothing illogical, it seems to me, about saying, 'I am going to care deeply about my work and my writing. I'm also going to care deeply about my family and my child.'
Martha Nussbaum
Work
Saying
Family
Me
Writing
I Am
Care
Nothing
About
Seems
Also
Am
Child
Going
Illogical
Deeply
It's always easier for people to face backward than to face forward.
Martha Nussbaum
People
Face
Easier
Backward
Always
Than
Forward
The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.
Martha Nussbaum
Needs
Gift
Humanities
Imagination
Cultivation
Provide
Refinement
Innate
Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness.
Martha Nussbaum
Anger
Our
Way
Our Lives
Extricate
Ourselves
Seems
Feel
Lots
Gets
Often
Situations
Grip
Us
Helpless
Helplessness
Lives
I have spent a lot of my career working on normative political philosophy, developing the 'capabilities approach' to social justice. I have also spent a lot of my career working on the structure of the emotions, and their role in human life.
Martha Nussbaum
Life
Justice
Emotions
Political
Approach
Philosophy
Spent
Structure
Developing
Also
Lot
Role
Human
Capabilities
Social
Working
Human Life
Social Justice
Career
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.
Martha Nussbaum
Anger
Emotions
Envy
Negative
Other
Compounds
More
Than
Often
Disgust
Buried
Deeply
I can run a long distance very slowly and I do a half marathon every year.
Martha Nussbaum
Long
Half
Year
Every
Distance
I Can
Run
Slowly
Long-Distance
Very
Marathon
I think we've lost the idea that politicians are part of the humanities. And we think of them as part of a natural science tradition, and we don't expect them to have the contact with literature, with history, with the richness of descriptive language that the humanities have always stood for. And I think that's a great loss.
Martha Nussbaum
Great
History
Science
Natural
Language
Lost
Politicians
Humanities
Think
I Think
Part
Contact
Idea
Always
Tradition
Loss
Expect
Stood
Literature
Them
Natural Science
Richness
Descriptive
If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience.
Martha Nussbaum
You
Dignity
Religions
Idea
Look
Source
Human
Being
Human Dignity
Deep
Conscience
It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.
Martha Nussbaum
You
People
Treat
Other
Way
Easier
See
Objects
Never
Learned
Any
Any Other Way
Manipulated
Them
We see unreasoning fear driving a certain amount of public policy, perhaps more in Europe than in the U.S.
Martha Nussbaum
Fear
See
More
Driving
Perhaps
Policy
Than
Public
Certain
Public Policy
Europe
Amount
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered.
Martha Nussbaum
Good
You
Trust
Human Being
World
Own
Control
Kind
Ability
Uncertain
Lead
Beyond
Openness
Shattered
Human
Being
Your
Things
Good Human
What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that object as salient for one's life.
Martha Nussbaum
Life
Emotions
Focus
Distinguishes
Object
Common
Them
Bodily
View
Appetites
On the whole, the accommodationist position has been dominant in U.S. law and public culture ─ ever since George Washington wrote a famous letter to the Quakers explaining that he would not require them to serve in the military because the 'conscientious scruples of all men' deserve the greatest 'delicacy and tenderness.'
Martha Nussbaum
Culture
Law
Men
Military
Has-Been
Would
Delicacy
Tenderness
He
Since
Quakers
Wrote
Because
Greatest
George
Been
George Washington
Dominant
Famous
Public
Explaining
Them
Scruples
Require
Whole
Washington
Letter
Deserve
Ever
Serve
Conscientious
Position
Envy, propelled by fear, can be even more toxic than anger, because it involves the thought that other people enjoy the good things of life which the envier can't hope to attain through hard work and emulation.
Martha Nussbaum
Life
Work
Hope
Hard Work
Good
Anger
People
Good Things
Fear
Envy
Thought
Enjoy
Other
More
Through
Attain
Toxic
Involves
Because
Emulation
Than
Which
Hard
Even
Things
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