Korsgaard Sources Quotes & Sayings

The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons — Hannah Arendt

We're a team. It's part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we'd never get anything done. — Jeramey Kraatz

Everything your students need to know about philosophy communicated in a way that appeals to them, as well as inspire many of them to the study of philosophy. — Sandor Marai

Don't put people, or anything else, on pedestals, not even your children. Avoid global labels such as genius or weirdo. Realize those closest get the benefit of the doubt and so do the most beautiful and radiant among us. Know the halo effect causes you to see a nice person as temporarily angry and an angry person as temporarily nice. Know that one good quality, or a memory of several, can keep in your life people who may be doing you more harm than good. Pay attention to the fact that when someone seems nice and upbeat, the words coming out of his or her mouth will change in meaning, and if that same person were depressive, arrogant, or foul in some other way, your perceptions of those same exact words would change along with the person's other features. — David McRaney

I think many people simply feel like they don't recognize their country anymore. — John Cornyn

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed. — Lewis H. Lapham

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not. — Charles Caleb Colton

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists. — James Mill

Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks. — David Gerrold

Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates. — Jamie Zawinski

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death. — Saul Bellow

Real people make mistakes, are haunted by doubts, take revenge, die before their time, love two people in different ways — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

This is a work of fiction, and the people in it are fictitious. The ghosts are real. — Nathaniel Benchley

It was right for his speech to be a failure, since what he had been defending was a lie. — Jean Hegland