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• We have the reverse of the Puritan work ethic in America now. No one ever becomes a star by plugging along year after year. What is needed is flair, talent, 'an eye,' contacts, charisma, and, most of all, naturalness.

  Judith Martin

  Stars, Eye, Years

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Suffering, Today, Ethical

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• Economics and ethics have little in common.

  Agnes Repplier

  Littles, Common, Economics

  Agnes Repplier (1920). “Points of Friction”

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• To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Redemption, Economy, Bent

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Zero, Work, Motherhood

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, War, Thinking

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• photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Grammar, Notion

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Law, Principles, Germany

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• The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics how he should acquire it, whether by honesty or fraud. Geography is a map of the world; ethics is a beautiful map of duty. This ethics is not Christianity, it is not even religion; but it is the sister of religion, because the path of duty is in full harmony, as to quality and direction, with the path of God.

  David Swing

  Beautiful, Honesty, Men

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• As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. It is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. The childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Religious, Sea, Law

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.323, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Children, Morality, Fine

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.20, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.

  Robert Kraft

  Team, Play Hard, Nfl

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• Having a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively choose to engage with the world - whether you're in a relationship or not. It's not about disappearing into existing structures, norms, and privileges. It's precisely about breaking with the existing structures, values, and norms that prohibit real love in our culture.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Real, Mean, Being In Love

  "NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBE CURRENT ISSUE PREVIOUS POSTS True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Past, Government, Years

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Socialism, Made, Weakening

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 11 : The Discipline of Abstract Rules and the Emotions of the Tribal Society, 1973.

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• War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

  Nellie L. McClung

  Children, War, Men

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.17, University of Toronto Press

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• The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

  Margaret Halsey

  Real, Doe, Action

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

  Margaret Halsey

  Communication, Culture, Inferiority

  Margaret Halsey (1964). “The Corrupted Giant: A Speculation on American Politics and Morals”

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• Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.

  Anita Roddick

  Running, Business, Home

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• Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

  Anita Roddick

  Work Ethic, Entrepreneur, Outsiders

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• If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Jobs, Ifs

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• while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

  Georgia Harkness

  Mean, Religion, Ethical

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• Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our ethical vision. If our actions in the world are to stem from an encounter with what is central in life, they must be unclouded by either dogma or prevarication. Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Empathy, Risk, Vision

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• I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.

  George Hamilton

  Work Ethic, Serious, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Developing a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

  Tyler Perry

  Summer, Jobs, Keys

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