“Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!” HumansChoicesHuman BeingsRootsAffectionHomeless Author:Robert Southey
“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.” ThinkingWayMayWarRealSelfFactsRealitySeemsAmericaChoicesEvilLiteratureImaginationDifferencesMoralFantasyBattleOffersEthicsRootsInstrumentsKillingMetaphorAlternativesGood And EvilRighteousHeroismImaginativeDoing GoodBrutalityExaminingSelf Righteous Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives, there can be no values. And without values, there can be no reason for a code of ethics. What gives our lives meaning is which alternatives we choose. If we have no options, if we can take but one path, we are by definition slaves.” IfsGivingReasonValuesChoicesMoralPathOur LivesMoralityEthicsRootsSlaveDefinitionsAlternativesCodeMeaning Of LifeNo ReasonVacuumsLife MeansMoral CodeBereftCode Of Ethics Author:Dave Galanter
“A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model The Mesh.” ChoicesGrowsInformationModelsToolsRootsStartingGuidesConsumersEmergingMesh Book:The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing Source: The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing
“My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.” WorldHumansRealityChoicesSocialHuman BeingsDealsPaperRootsScientistThirdsSickFellowsMajorityStructureUglyHungryIceMathematicalCreamSociologyPapersFlavorIce CreamThird WorldUneducatedCohesionFree ChoiceSocial Structure Author:Mario Bunge
“God's is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Ours in causality is determinative of what kind of being we're going to be through our free choices, what kind of action we are going to do through our decisions.” KindActionChoicesDecisionLevelsRootsCausalityFree Choice Author:Francis George