No original: "Moral seriousness in public life is like pornography: hard to define but you know it when you see it. It describes a coherence of intention and action, an ethic of political responsibility. All politics is the art of the possible. But art too has its ethic."
O Chalé da Memória (2010)
Fonte: Capítulo III - Austeridade. Tradução de Celso Nogueira.
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No original: "If there is no single good, then there is likely no single form of analysis that captures all the various forms of the good, and no single political logic that can master all of ethics."
Pensando o Século XX (2012)
Fonte: Capítulo 6 - Geração do Entendimento: Liberal Europeu Oriental. Tradução de Otacílio Nunes.
No original: Europe is the smallest continent. It is not really even a continent—just a subcontinental annexe to Asia. The whole of Europe (excluding Russia and Turkey) comprises just five and a half million square kilometers: less than two thirds the area of Brazil, not much more than half the size of China or the US. But in the intensity of its internal differences and contrasts, Europe is unique.
Pós-Guerra: Uma História da Europa desde 1945 (2005)
Fonte: Prefácio. Tradução de José Roberto O'Shea.