Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about children
Quotes by Tom G. Palmer
25 quotes by Tom G. Palmer
Tom G. Palmer - american educator
Life period: 1956
Abstract rules, which establish in advance what we may expect of one another, make cooperation possible on a wide scale.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about rules
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem, it does not require a belief in abstract entities.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about faith, essential, use
But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about reason, rightness
Communitarians are typically much more cautious, but despite a lot of talk they rarely tell us much about what our common good might be.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about common sense, good, good luck
Each person has the right to be free, and free persons can produce order spontaneously, without a commanding power over them.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about people, order, power, rightness
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about equality, moral, people
Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about politics
I've been a fan of Stephen Hunter, film critic at the Washington Post, for some time. I've always found his reviews to be helpful guides to films.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about opinion, hunters, literary critic, film, time
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about birh, rightness
Indeed, the federal government allocates about $185 billion in programs and services based on population figures provided by the Census Bureau.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about guvernement
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about things, good, good luck
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about survival, self-control, human imperfections
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, circumstances, people, rightness
Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, children
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, common sense, reason, world, good, good luck
Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about country, idea, life
No reasonable person could possibly believe that individuals are fully formed outside society in isolation, if you will.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about opinion, society, people
Rather, classical liberals and libertarians argue that the system of justice should abstract from the concrete characteristics of individuals.
Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, justice
