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Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice QUOTES

Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice QUOTES

1 " This day of torment, of craziness, of foolishness—only love can make it end in happiness and joy. —W. A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, Le Nozze di Figaro (1786) "

― Martha C. Nussbaum , Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice

2 " But it is to the school that Tagore devotes central emphasis in The Religion of Man.14 He begins by expressing his lifelong dissatisfaction with the schools he attended: “The inexpensive power to be happy, which, along with other children, I brought to this world, was being constantly worn away by friction with the brick-and-mortar arrangement of life, by monotonously mechanical habits and the customary code of respectability” (144). In effect, children begin as madcap Bauls, full of love, longing, and joy in the presence of nature. Their love of play and their questioning spirit need to be strengthened, not crushed. But schools usually crush all that is disorderly, "

― Martha C. Nussbaum , Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice

3 " Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. "

― Martha C. Nussbaum , Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice