Tibor R. Machan: Quotes about personality

Tibor R. Machan was Hungarian-American philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on personality.
Tibor R. Machan: 26   quotes 0   likes

“If one behaved as a good citizen or a charitable person simply because one was dreadfully scared of the state placing one in jail, one would not be a good citizen or person but barely more than a circus animal.”

Tibor R. Machan

Source: Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being (1998), p. 11

Animals , Personality

“To Marx any talk of rights possessed by people equally, unalienably, absolutely, and universally would have to await the communist epoch when all persons will have reached a common nature, total equality and perfection. Until then people are in a state of incompletion and imperfection, incapable of justifying equal human rights.”

Tibor R. Machan

Source: Human Rights and Human Liberties: A Radical Reconsideration of the American Political Tradition, (1975), p. 41

People , Nature , Universe , Personality

“Ethics requires the kind of personal reflection, in the end, that no one else can do decisively for any individual.”

Tibor R. Machan

Source: The Promise of Liberty: A Non-Utopian Vision (2009), p. 69

Decision , Personality