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“Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good and evil is drawn, evaluations are made and meaning is sought.”
“Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.”
“Ethics & Prototypes (The Sonnet)
Take morality out of science and,
All you've left is one big conspiracy theory.
Abundance of facts doesn't make something right,
If it has no regard for the supreme fact of humanity.
Just because we can innovate, doesn't mean we should,
Science can no more be measured by the query of could.
In future we'll be able to pre-edit a newborn baby,
But just because we could, doesn't mean we should.
Only a true scientist will realize the truth in this,
A mind that can look past the pomp into the purpose,
While counterfeit tech giants try to turn the world,
Into a giant lifeless robot made of bolts and nuts.
So better keep radical designs hidden from public eyes.
Some prototypes must never ever be commercialized.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Ethics, responsible innovation and intentionality aren't—or shouldn't be—just compliance checkboxes or a PR strategy. Instead, they form part of the metaphorical load-bearing structure that determines what can be built safely and beneficially—and what cannot.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.”
Source: The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology
“Ethics should be that value system which
provides the greatest
opportunity for all forms of life to exist, in equilibrium, and the greatest opportunity for all those life forms to achieve fulfillment.”
“Ethics should dictate our beliefs because they are more enduring. Decency and kindness will be ever thus while human beliefs might change with the times.”
“Ethics that focus on human interactions, morals that focus on humanity's relationship to a Creator, fall short of these things we've learned. They fail to encompass the big take-home message, so far, of a century and a half of biology and ecology: life is- more than anything else- a process; it creates, and depends on, relationships among energy, land, water, air, time and various living things. It's not just about human-to-human interaction; it's not just about spiritual interaction. It's about all interaction. We're bound with the rest of life in a network, a network including not just all living things but the energy and nonliving matter that flows through the living, making and keeping all of us alive as we make it alive. We can keep debating ideologies and sending entreaties toward heaven. But unless we embrace the fuller reality we're in- and reality's implications- we'll face big problems.”
Source: The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“Ethics to me is very important.”
“Ethics without economy leads to physical starvation and economy without ethics leads to mental starvation. It’s only with a healthy combination of both can the human society live and progress with health, sanity and serenity.”
“Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.”
“Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots”
“Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers”
“Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.”
“Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.”
Source: Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed
“Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.”
“Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.”
Source: Long Walk To Freedom
“Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.”
“Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.”
“Ethiopia doesn't matter to the West," I say, stating the obvious. "We offer them nothing they can exploit.”
Source: Sweetness in the Belly
“Ethiopia is the center of origin and diversity for the majority of coffee we drink. The commodification of coffee pushes farmers to grow as much as possible by whatever means possible. This has contributed to deforestation. The place where coffee was born - the area with the greatest biodiversity of coffee anywhere in the world - could disappear. No forest, no coffee. No coffee, no forest. What we lose isn't specific to Ethiopia; it impacts us all.”
Source: Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love
“Ethiopian Singer and Activist, Hachalu Hundessa, Is Shot Dead. Very sad that we are experiencing this sort of barbaric treatment of citizens off a "free world" in 2020. The world would be a boring place without critics.”
“Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.”
“Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization.”
“Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.”
“Ethnic cleansing doesn’t cure ethnic cleansing,”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessarily cause people to kill each other. They become so-called 'tribalism' when they are politicized in a particular framework. And in post-independence Africa they have been politicized largely by sections of the so-called African elite.”
“Ethnic entrepreneurship englobes the totality of projects and economic initiatives undertaken by ethnic minority individuals that are not yet integrated into the society of a country with a large number of immigrants.”
Source: Successful Citizens through entrepreneurship
“Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
“Ethnic music the world 'round is quite fascinating," "There are an enormous number of similarities there, and it's the similarities that are so appealing. ... I haven't even scratched the surface of that kind of thing.”
“Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.”
“Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.”
“Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.”
“Ethnic violence is not an uncontrolled outburst of rage. The fact that it takes such predictable forms means that some common processes are shaping these violent interactions, and that participants have psychological capacities and preferences that make it possible for them to engage in these acts in a coordinated manner.”
Source: Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
“Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.”
“Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic... being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral.”
“Ethnicity and tribe began, by definition, where sovereignty and taxes ended. The ethnic zone was feared and stigmatized by state rhetoric precisely because it was beyond its grasp and therefore an example of defiance and an ever-present temptation to those who might wish to evade the state.”
Source: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
“Ethnicity is a commodity of fear, prejudice is a commodity of power.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Ethnicity is a product of dogma, not a marker of human capacity.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Ethnicity is liquor of the apes (Naskaristana 2522)
Every nonwhite person speaks two or more languages,
every nonwhite person juggles two or more cultures,
every nonwhite person comes from a soil
seeped in philosophy and poetry -
now tell me, how exactly are the whites superior!
Here I'm not establishing the nonwhites
as superior, all I'm pointing out is this -
in sciences white people are not the pioneers,
in philosophy white people are not the pioneers,
in art and astrophysics whiteys are not the pioneers,
in medicine and mathematics whiteys are not the pioneers,
then how on earth did you come by this
insane inkling that white people are the super race,
how many bottles did you have, or did you
bang your head against the rocks while making fire!
Fact of the matter is, dumbness doesn't have ethnicity,
but fanaticism of ethnicity only establishes
that ethnicity as the dumbest bunch of apes on earth,
whether it's neonazis, zionists, islamists or sanatanuts.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.”
“Ethno-cultural change is occurring at a rapid rate at precisely the time the dominant ideology celebrates a multicultural vision of ever-increasing diversity. To hanker after homogeneity and stability is perceived as narrow-minded and racist by liberals. Yet diversity falls flat for many because we’re not all wired the same way.”
Source: Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities
“Ethnobotanists know that the more names a plant has, the greater its cultural importance.”
Source: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
“Ethnography is something you have actively be aware of doing; it's not passive work. It takes considerable conscious effort to do it well.”
Source: Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers
“Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior - based on information collected through fieldwork.”
“ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'”
“Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that they have a name for the true beliefs which are the typical product of these reliable capacities. They call them items of knowledge. So I argue that talk of knowledge may thereby be seen to be embedded within a successful empirical theory.”
“Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off.”
“Etienne now commanded a view of the whole district. It was still very dark, but the old man had peopled the darkness with untold sufferings, which the young one could sense all round him in the limitless space. Could he not hear a cry of famine borne over this bleak country by the March wind? The gale had lashed itself into a fury and seemed to be blowing death to all labour and a great hunger that would finish off men by the hundred. And with his roving eye he tried to peer through the gloom, with a tormenting desire to see and yet a fear of seeing. Everything slid away in the dark unknown, and all he could see was distant furnaces and coke-ovens which, set in batteries of a hundred chimneys arranged obliquely, made sloping lines of crimson flames; whilst further to the left the two blast-furnaces were burning blue in the sky like monstrous torches. It was as depressing to watch as a building on fire: as far as the threatening horizon the only stars which rose were the nocturnal fires of the land of coal and iron.”
Source: Germinal