Tibor R. Machan: Quotes about personality

Tibor R. Machan was Hungarian-American philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on personality.

Tibor R. Machan: 26 quotes0 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

“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

“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