Alan Ryan quotes

“We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are”
-- Alan Ryan

#Income Quotes #Find Me Quotes

“A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.”
-- Alan Ryan

#Book Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes

“It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.”
-- Alan Ryan

“Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.”
-- Alan Ryan

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Depth Quotes

“Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.”
-- Alan Ryan

#Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Roots Quotes

“Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.”
-- Alan Ryan

Source : "Justice". Introduction to the book edited by Alan Ryan, 1993.

#Justice Quotes #Political Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.”

“I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.”

“I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).”

Source : Anthony Hope (2016). “The Prisoner of Zenda”, p.4, Xist Publishing

“The actual growth in a person's life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income.”

“Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.”

“No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud”

Source : "Watchdog brands WorldCom report 'wholly inadequate'" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2002.

“To be invisible so Rev could never find me.”

“The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.”

“I refuse to let the past find me here.”

Source : Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

“I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!”