The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figur…

- Michael Sandel

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

- Michael Sandel

Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferenc…

- Michael Sandel

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

- Michael Sandel

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

- Michael Sandel

A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market va…

- Michael Sandel

It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake.

- Michael Sandel

Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institut…

- Michael Sandel

You can't go wrong with fish and chips.

- Michael Sandel