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I don't waste time despising people.
— Martha Nussbaum
Tags: waste, people, time

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Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the pain of others, all these are good reasons to make laws that protect people in their rights.
— Martha Nussbaum
Tags: people, justice, fear, good
I wake up at night thinking about Euripides' 'Hecuba.' That to me is a story that says so much about what it is to be a human being in the middle of a world of unreliable things and people.
— Martha Nussbaum
Tags: thinking, world, people, me
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
Tags: think, people, religion, you
The U.S. has always understood itself to be united around political principles and not around culture, whereas the nations of Europe have a much more traditional conception of nationhood that is connected to romanticism, which thinks of religion and culture as ingredients of nationhood.
— Martha Nussbaum
Tags: always, political, culture, religion
We see unreasoning fear driving a certain amount of public policy, perhaps more in Europe than in the U.S.
— Martha Nussbaum
Tags: see, driving, more, fear
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