Mohamed

“the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is done. What matters is the motive, and the motive must be of a certain kind. What matters is doing the right thing because it’s right, not for some ulterior motive.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

“It isn't easy to teach students to be citizens, capable of thinking critically about the world around them, when so much of childhood consists of basic training for a consumer society.”
― Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

“scientific literacy and numeracy were not very good predictors of people’s beliefs about the risks of climate change. Instead, their beliefs were well predicted by their general cultural outlooks—by their tribal memberships (see”
― Joshua D. Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

“This line of reasoning leads Kant to the second formulation of the categorical imperative: “Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.”23 This is the formula of humanity as an end.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?