Ethos Quotes

• Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Technology, Humanity

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

  Herbert Hoover

  Progress, Fundamentals, Sides

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.30, Stanford University Press

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• Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Time, Eye, Reality

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• Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.

  Darren Johnson

  Action, Deny, Barriers

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• It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

  Alan Cumming

  Commitment, Okay, Openness

  "Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir review - Alan Cumming recalls pain without self-pity" by Damian Barr, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2014.

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• The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

  Sheryl Lee

  Dark, Sides, Deny

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example.

  Randal Marlin

  Writing, Character, Emotional

  Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.39, Broadview Press

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• No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  World, Excitement, Deny

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Mean, Movement

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

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• No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, War, Ethics

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.29, Paradise Publishing

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• On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Saint, Sides

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• What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

  Herbert Read

  Literature, Deny, Mystical

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Powerful, Community, Greed

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• To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

  Jane Campion

  Vision, Directors, Feminine

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

  Paul Martin

  Steps, Deny, Protect

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• A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos together.

  Anne Waldman

  Vision, Together, Culture

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.

  C. Wright Mills

  Giving Up, Issues, Political

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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• Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Catholic, Unity

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

  Frances Conroy

  Birthday, Age, Faces

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• I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.

  J. C. Watts

  Oklahoma, Littles, Grew Up

  "What Color Is a Conservative?". abcnews.go.com.

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• I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Kids, People, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Crumbling, Machines

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• The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

  Alison Bechdel

  Mad, Childhood, Influence

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• I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

  Lydia Lunch

  Thinking, Lunch, People

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• I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank goodness he likes his training or else he wouldn't settle here.

  Iain Dowie

  Thinking, Training, Likes

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