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It's always easier for people...

It's always easier for people to face backward than to face forward.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

Martin Luther King and Gandhi...

Martin Luther King and Gandhi were not people who failed in self-respect. They were people of hope and great courage, and their courage was disciplined.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

American men do have genuine ...

American men do have genuine reasons for anxiety. The traditional jobs that many men have filled are disappearing, thanks to automation and outsourcing. The jobs that remain require, in most cases, higher education, which is increasingly difficult for non-affluent families to afford.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

The imagination is an innate ...

The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

I'd like to be a student in R...

I'd like to be a student in Rabindranath Tagore's school in Santiniketan in around 1915, dancing in the dance-dramas he wrote.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

Disgust is often more deeply ...

Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

It's a form of human love to ...

It's a form of human love to accept our complicated, messy humanity and not run away from it.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

To be a good human being is t...

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 12 quotes

Teaching has always been a ve...

Teaching has always been a very important part of my life. It is one of the ways I contribute to society. It is also a source of energy and insight.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

It is easier to treat people ...

It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

Disgust for the female body i...

Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

There's nothing illogical, it...

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 12 quotes

All of us, whether we are ign...

All of us, whether we are ignorant of philosophy or professors of philosophy, find it easier to follow dogma than to think.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

I think Americans did learn t...

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 12 quotes

This is true across every sin...

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 12 quotes

At Chicago I offer a course o...

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.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

To be sure Plato did not favo...

To be sure Plato did not favor 'affirmative action' to fill political and military offices in his own society; nor did he enroll women in his school.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

Giving children the sense tha...

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.

Martha Nussbaum 12 quotes

I have spent a lot of my care...

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 12 quotes

And I sometimes find that mem...

And I sometimes find that members of my family are reading completely different news from what I'm reading, because they're not reading general interest newspapers at all. They're getting all their news from certain Internet sites that are rather political.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....