Michael Sandel Quotes

I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things - things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.

I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

When I was an academic, I'd sometimes get a little feeling of excitement when I had an idea that was, I hoped, fresh. And whether anyone should act on that idea is a very different question.

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

College professors are suspect because whenever emotion is in control, anti-intellectualism prevails.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint.

I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.

I've learned much more about politics than I thought I ever would.

In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.

I'm fascinated by politics. I love watching everyone from Neil deGrasse Tyson to Lawrence Krauss to people like Richard Dawkins and Noam Chomsky on YouTube.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

I was very interested in politics in college and was heading to be a lawyer. I have a degree in economics and I was interested in it. I hadn't really gotten super serious about it and I'd done a lot of student politics in high school. I really think it would be interesting and fun and challenging to go into politics.

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.