Code Quotes - Page 28

• The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

  Ayn Rand

  Gold, Morality, Standards

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man's inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Brother, Independent

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.105, Penguin

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• It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, Party, Giving

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.286

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• While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Men, Wizards

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.156, tredition

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• It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.

  Jane Addams

  Successful, Giving, Achievement

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.63, University of Illinois Press

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• Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.

  Sholem Asch

  Arms, Moral, Life Is

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• It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so roundly denigrated.

  John Pfahl

  Art, Sublime, Trying

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• Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

  Louise Bernikow

  Survival, Female, Facts

  Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins

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• Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Horse, Children, Texas

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• A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Should Have, Community, Behavior

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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• Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Competition, Intellectual, May

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story”

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• Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Men, Morality, Accepting

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.146, 谷月社

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• I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you can pay gigolos to eat gnocchi out of your navel and you won't be pilloried -- as long as you never, ever wear linen with tweed.

  Kathy Lette

  Long, Dresses, Dress Code

  Kathy Lette (2012). “Foetal Attraction”, p.48, Random House

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• As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mother, Country, War

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• Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Feminism, Resistance, Female

  Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”

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• The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

  Sigrid Undset

  Bottles, Morality, Empty

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• It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Christian, Gentleman, Too Much

  George Stillman Hillard “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General, U. S. Army”, Charles River Editors

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• If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia. If not, I don't know who wrote it ..I'll be laughing when I'm old and and all my programmer friends have gone alexic from staring at too many tiny pixels

  Paul Dilascia

  Laughing, Gone, Pixels

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• Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.

  Edward Jenks

  Military, Successful, Long

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• It's guilty of the very thing that makes kids hate history as a subject when it's taught badly: The Da Vinci Code makes the past feel like a dull, grainy, faraway thing, instead of something vibrant and alive.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Hate, Kids, Past

  "The Da Vinci Code". www.salon.com. May 18, 2006.

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• It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.

  Hadewijch

  Blow, Strikes, Written

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• moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  People, Our Society, Morality

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.41, Zed Books

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• Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.

  Felicia Day

  Long, People, Addiction

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• Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

  Daniel Smith

  Regret, Educational, Feelings

  Daniel Smith (2013). “Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.

  Charles Schumer

  Reform, Cayman Islands, Want

  Charles Schumer's Speech at the Democratic National Convention, in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012.

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