Ethics Quotes - Page 20

• Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Cosmos, Answers, Duration

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

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• The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.

  Jane Addams

  Journey, Expression, Ideas

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.14, Youcanprint

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• We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

  Jane Addams

  Mixing, Size, Common

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.7, University of Illinois Press

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• We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

  Barack Obama

  Self, People, Political

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• For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: "Let's roll".

  George W. Bush

  America, Long, Feel Good

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993).

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Powerful, Thinking, Impact

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• Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.

  J. G. Ballard

  Self, Work Ethic, Kingdoms

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Reality, People

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mean, Men, Discipline

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it!

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Army, Gun

  "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.

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• If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Suicide, Light, Order

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.91, University of Chicago Press

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• Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

  Herbert Spencer

  Existence, Solutions

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.269, VM eBooks

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• The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

  Camille Paglia

  School, Men, Yale

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• The goal that the Obama team has is to fundamentally replace the historic America of self reliance, independence, the work ethic, the people who go out and achieve because they spend their lifetime doing the right things and they want to replace it with a politician dominated redistributionist bureaucracy which in the essence would mean the end of the America as it has been for the last 400 years.

  Newt Gingrich

  Team, Mean, Self

  "Glenn interviews Newt Gingrich". "Glenn Beck Radio Program", www.glennbeck.com.

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• Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.

  Novalis

  Philosophy, Heart, Mean

  "Novalis: Fichte Studies". Book by Novalis, edited by Jane Kneller, §556, 2003.

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• The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.

  Saul Alinsky

  Father, Hero, Mean

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.34, Vintage

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• The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Ends, Rules For Radicals

  "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals". Book by Saul Alinsky, p. 35, archive.org. 1971.

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• If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Men, Epistemology, Knows

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.129, Routledge

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• It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Games, Psychology, Dynamics

  Anatol Rapoport (1974). “Fights, Games, and Debates”, p.12, University of Michigan Press

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• I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, "Oh, I can play a little as well."

  Carla Gugino

  Strong, Grateful, Thinking

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Generally, I am just myself, a crazy John Belushi type. But I'm not comparing myself to him. I think I am against stereotype. Generally Asian guys are more quiet - they study and have a good work ethic. Generally, I have none of those things.

  Bobby Lee

  Crazy, Thinking, Work Ethic

  "Bobby Lee On Comedy, Survival And Being ‘A Big, Sweaty Ball Of Flesh’". Interview With Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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• My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

  Carl Reiner

  Father, Work Ethic, House

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

  Eva LaRue

  Children, Work Ethic, Crafts

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• I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Mean, Work Ethic, Proud

  Guardian interview, July 4, 2009.

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• An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

  Simon Blackburn

  Sweat, Essentials, Gone

  Simon Blackburn (2003). “Ethics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.22, OUP Oxford

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