Thomas Nagel Quotes
Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.
Nagel, Thomas. Concealment and Exposure: And Other Essays. Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 4.
Mandelstam was later sent to a Soviet gulag for writing a poem denouncing Stalin. He died there.
The Prime Minister was viewing films of the effects on cities of Allied bombing of Germany.
This was the first report or expose of “Thuggee” a quasi-religious Indian cult that revolved around robbery and murder. The word “thug” came to English from the Hindi word for the member of the cult.
This may be the first formal resolution against slavery in the Americas. This quotation shows the fact that not only did these Mennonites oppose slavery, and chastise those who bought slaves as much as the slave capturers, but they argued that the slaves had a perfect right to armed struggle to free themselves—the greatest fear of slaveholders in America. The term “negers” was not a word of disrespect but was derived from the low German spoken by the Mennonites.
Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher. He is a University Professor of Philosophy and Law, Emeritus, at New York University, where he taught from 1980 to 2016. His main areas of philosophical interest are legal philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics.
