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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

by Michael J. Sandel

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"Kant views humans as ends in themselves, rational beings deserving respect. Only act in ways you’d want everyone to act, as treating people as mere means violates their dignity. We can reason and make deliberate choices, unlike other sentient beings. True moral action requires autonomy; universal law means acting from reason, not heteronomy." — Apr 16, 2026 01:44PM

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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Zach’s Quotes

“I dislike him.”—Why?—“I am not a match for him.”—Did any one ever answer so?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“Nonsense! That is... I am drunk like a fool, but that’s not it; I am not drunk from wine. It’s seeing you has turned my head...”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“74. A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possess at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“Abbiamo bisogno di tempo. Di mettere tempo fra noi. Di vivere insieme, di viaggiare insieme, perché il nostro pensiero riconosca istintivamente l'altro; e lo riconosca come una presenza automatica di consuetudine e di affetto. Abbiamo bisogno di molto tempo per accettare la brutalità del fatto di non essere più soli.”
― Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Camere separate

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“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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