Alan Ryan quotes
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“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”
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“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.”
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“It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.”
-- Alan RyanSource : "Justice". Introduction to the book edited by Alan Ryan, 1993.
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Source : Anthony Hope (2016). “The Prisoner of Zenda”, p.4, Xist Publishing
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“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.
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“I refuse to let the past find me here.”
Source : Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
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“I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!”
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