Roberto Mangabeira Unger Quotes

#1. Bill Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis, Edward Said, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, and Jeremiah Wright. This is a group I've previously called Obama's founding fathers.

Dinesh D'Souza

#2. 'True Blood' is one of those shows that is so deep and good that you can't have it on in the background. It's one of those shows that you have to dedicate time to.

Robert Kazinsky

#3. Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator favors fatalism, so the experience of the agent produces hope.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

#4. The world loves a peaceful man, but it gives way to a strenuous kicker.

Emily Murphy

#5. There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart.

Richard Alleine

#6. They Take Turns Using a Word They Like "It's extraordinary," says one woman.

Lydia Davis

#7. Our desires are insatiable. We seek from the limited the unlimited. We must fail. Our insatiability is a third incurable defect in human life.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

#8. Your idea of a Valentine's heart probably has an aorta.

Jodi Picoult

#9. The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

#10. Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.

Tracy Chevalier

#11. I promptly forgot about him and prepared a blend of Creativi-Tea, since I had some fantasy role-players coming in for their weekly dungeon crawl, and the DM always wanted a little something extra to keep him on top of his players.

Kevin Hearne

#12. Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

Judith Martin

#13. They [Americans] believe that the terrors of vast problems yield to the effects of many small solutions.

Use little things to break big things, says Saint Paul, describing an essential feature of the psychology of hope.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

#14. The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

Alexander Hamilton

#15. If the self remains in its citadel, anxious to control and heavily defended, it declines in the sources of vitality. To lay the citadel open, however, is to court danger: a danger inseparable from the enhancement of life.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger