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Quotes from Sovereign Virtue — Ronald Dworkin

1931–2013 United States

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Playing God is indeed playing with fire. But that is what we mortals have done since Prometheus, the patron saint of dangerous discoveries. We play with fire and take the consequences, because the alternative is cowardice in the face of the unknown.

Sovereign Virtue (2000)

No government is legitimate that does not show equal concern for the fate of all those over whom it claims dominion and from whom it claims allegiance. Equal concern is the sovereign virtue of political community without it government is only tyranny and when a nation’s wealth is very unequally distributed, as the wealth of even very prosperous nations now is, then its equal concern is suspect.

Sovereign Virtue (2000)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ronald Dworkin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.