Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Margaret Thatcher
只擁有民主，是不夠的，多數人的選票決定，不一定能改正根深蒂固的錯誤。民主要保障自由，而自由要由幾根支柱來體現：法治、新聞自由、隸屬國家而不是政黨的軍隊。
戴卓爾夫人
Category Archives: Philosophy
名言九十五
Being democratic is not enough – a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. Freedom depends on the strength of institutions: law and order, a free press, the police and the army that serves the government rather than supervises it.
Harvey Fierstein
名言九十四
I like things to happen. And if they don’t happen, i like to make them happen.
Winston Churchill
陶國璋 – 關於哲學家 – 節錄於《少年Pi的奇幻漂流 ── 哲學、文學與電影 》
Thanks David for sharing this to me.
From 3:20 to 10:39
名言九十三
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach
名言九十二
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Walter Cronkite
名言九十一
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
名言九十
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Martin Luther King
名言八十九
Whatever career you may choose for yourself – doctor, lawyer, teacher – let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.
Martin Luther King
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
作者: Michael J. Sandel
相對於 Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? ，這本關於市場如何影響社會的書比較易明，若果想閱讀 Michael J. Sandel 的著作，建議先看此書。
跟 Justice 一書相同，作者首先列舉多過不同的現實生活例子來帶出相關的議題，當一切都可以買賣，人類的生活與價值觀會產生什麼的變化呢? 是否所有東西都可以被標上價錢?
作者認為人類文明有些東西並不可以被金錢所量化，原因如下：
- 不是所有交易都可以保證在公平及自願的情況下進行。
- 在金錢的作用下，所交易的東西將失去原有的意義，或意義被扭曲。
在新自由主義的影響下，市場在不知不覺中入侵了生活上各個層面，沒有人察覺問題的存在，哲學卻為人類敲響了警號。
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.
Eureka! 