Sublime

Once people began revealing their sexual orientation to friends and family, the floodgates started to open, perhaps especially when their family members were politicians who were members of a party opposed to this change.

La seule façon de sauvegarder la complexité d’une société, c’est-à-dire ses libertés, avec un minimum d’autorité répressive, ne peut être autre chose que le sentiment vécu d’appartenance à la communauté.

challenge is to work with, rather than against, people’s sense of who they are.

a free society must be a moral society, for without the rule of law, constrained by the overarching imperatives of the right and the good, freedom will eventually degenerate into tyranny, and liberty, painfully won, will be lost.

Public-spirited choice architects—those who run the daily newspaper, for example—know that it’s good to nudge people in directions that they might not have specifically chosen in advance. Structuring choice sometimes means helping people to learn, so they can later make better choices on their own.

religiously and racially pluralistic with freedom of religion for all.

The paradox of the American republic is that it at once enshrines our benefits while at the same time insisting on our liberties. This is also the paradox a blind person must confront.

An ongoing useful role for governments is the creation of standardized units to make comparisons easier for consumers.