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“Internalizing’ a set of values is very close to internalizing the gaze or voice of others. Recognizing that they have a complaint against you is regarding yourself as having fallen short in their eyes, and to have internalized their voice means finding that itself weighing with you.”
― Simon Blackburn, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

“E o neoliberalismo também, por sua vez, significou uma ritualização, por se tratar da modalidade mais mercantilizada da história do capitalismo – na qual tudo se transforma em mercadoria. O que era direito passa a ser mercadoria para então ser jogado no mercado.”
― Emir Sader, Nós que amávamos tanto O Capital: Leituras de Marx no Brasil

“Human beliefs about the gods have changed, and laws should change with them.”
― Plato, Laws

“The right to participate politically grants recognition to the moral personhood of the citizen, and exercise of that right gives that person some degree of agency over the common life of the community. The citizen may make poorly informed or bad decisions, but the exercise of political choice in and of itself is an important part of human flourishing.”
― Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy