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“I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.”

People Thinking World Believe I Believe Attention Moral Ethics Capacity Communicate Command Frontiers

Author:Gordon Brown

“My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.”

Water Community Animal Roles Land Citizens Members Ethics Fellows Plant My Favorite Boundaries Soil Homo Sapiens Conqueror Plants And Animals

Author:Aldo Leopold

“We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.”

People World Ends Left Smart Ethics Dumb Confused Our World Doom Smart People Dazed

Book:Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

“The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated as what works (it usually does not), but advocated because this is the way God is - God is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. This is not a stratagem for getting what we want but the only manner of life available, now that, in Jesus, we have seen what God wants. We seek reconciliation with the neighbor, not because we feel so much better afterward, but because reconciliation is what God is doing in the world through Christ.”

World Way Want Feels Kind Doe Jesus Christ Ethics Bases Available Neighbor Selfish Working It Cheeks Sermons Reconciliation Ungrateful Stratagem Sermon On The Mount

Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except for two: that it's not moral or that it's not Constitutional.”

Two Real Political Moral Members Ethics Argument Bills Congress Disaster

Author:Ron Paul

“There is absolutely no single aspect of one's personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men typically are asked to excel. I believe empathy is not only the core of art, literature and music, but should also be at the core of society, from ethics to economics.”

Men Should Believe Art Important Literature I Believe Personality Skills Empathy Ethics Aspect Economics Core Literature And Music

Author:Chris Ware

“God never excuses sin. And He is always consistent with that ethic. Whenever we start to question whether God really hates sin, we have only to think of the cross, where His Son was tortured, mocked, and beaten because of sin. Our sin”

Thinking Hate Sin Son Ethics Crosses Excuse Consistent Beaten

Book:Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.”

Way Christian Literature Ethics Humanism Indispensable Sociology Christian Ethics

Author:Christopher Dawson

“Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.”

Leadership Ethics Management Mere Technique Divorced

Book:Leadership

Source: Leadership

“Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies in the rock itself. Nowhere else in the world is the rock so exfoliated, so glacier-polished and so devoid of handholds. All of the climbing lines follow vertical crack systems. Every piton crack, every handhold is a vertical one. Special techniques and equipment have evolved through absolute necessity.”

World Doe Different Reason Lying Lines Special Rocks Ethics Absolutes Technique Cracks Climbing Equipment Polished Vertical Glaciers Yosemite

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.”

Use Inspiration Music Produce Messages Unique Ethics Being Yourself Work Ethic Great Music Dukes

Author:Kenny Burrell

“We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.”

Way Business Ethics Fundamentals

Author:Robert Bruner

“Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics.”

“Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.”

Belief Knowledge Technology Ethics Spite Personal Beliefs

Author:Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

“It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified. Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure.”

Knows Giving Has Beens Said Form Desire Pleasure Talking Moral Christianity Grace Return Gratitude Ethics And Love Doctrine Testament New Testament Awakened Literal God's Grace

Author:J. I. Packer

“I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them anyway!”

Ifs Thinking Stories Might Actors Term Deals Subjects Approach Ethics Treats Crew Trademarks

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.”

Men Trying Faces Pay Focus He Man Taxes Ethics Gun Victim Blame Coercion

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.”

Mean Ends Political Principles Ethics Remains Fingers Justify Vague Chatter Ends Justify The Means

Book:Darkness at noon

Source: Darkness at noon

“In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.”

Source: Arrow in the blue: an autobiography

“Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.”

Problem Poverty Morality Ethics Capitalism Capacity Solve

Author:Fidel Castro

“Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.”

Way Ends Lying Suffering Values Left Despair Ethics Ideals Foundation Deeds Disappear Scales Negation

Book:Across the frontiers

Source: Across the frontiers

“In his latest book Marc Ellis asks the defining question for Jewish life today: 'Can injustice, represented by Jewish domination of Jerusalem, be at the heart of the covenant?' Ellis's answer is that the covenant of Israel with God has been shattered by the creation of a state at the expense of Palestinian life in the land. It can only be renewed by a new ethic and practice of justice that reconcile these two people, who have become irrevocably linked together in the land, either for good or for ill.”

“Every defensive end who is going to be picked in the first round is going to be a good pick for whoever they're chosen by, but if I had to tell you what sets me apart, that would be my desire and determination to get better. I know what I need to work on, I know my weaknesses, but I have that work ethic to improve every day. I have that want to be the best player at my position, and I have the belief in myself that one day that will come true.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Firsts Ends Would Be Desire Belief Player Position One Day Picks Ethics Weakness Determination Rounds Chosen Get Better Being The Best Work Ethic Best Players

Author:Justin Tuck

“The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.”

Character Spirit Ethics Medicine Treatment Odds Involuntary Psychiatric

Book:The Loony-bin Trip

Source: The Loony-bin Trip

“From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.”

Strong Parent Brother Ethics My Brother Very Strong Work Ethic Brothers And Sisters Sister Present Time Strong Work Ethic

Author:George J. Mitchell

“According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.”

Helping Care Christian Poor Taxes Ethics Take Care Income God Love Immoral Love Each Other Income Tax Christian Ethics

Author:Bob Riley

“What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.”

“The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.”

Courses Willing Ethics Various Realms

Author:Corliss Lamont

“The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet?”

Ifs Looks Moments Bigs Might Happens Loses Risk Perspective Future Ethics Entrepreneur Excellence Reputation Live In The Moment Mortgage Big Picture

Author:Price Pritchett

“Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing one’s being and in achieving one’s own perfection within the fixed parameters that one’s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to one’s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first.”

“It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better. You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political. There is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends.”

People Littles Ends Might Care Earth Law Political Energy Rooms Building Revolution Amount Politician Cost Ethics Function Giants Priests Permaculture Administrators Anti Political

Author:Bill Mollison

“You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.”

People Ifs Problem Conditions Design Ethics Available Stealing Decency Scarcity

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.”

World Wells Reality Spiritual Values Spirituality Names Effort Illusion Ethics Tradition Penetrate Live Well

Author:Parker J. Palmer

“My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.”

Way Years Said Matter Jobs Mother Father Parent Wife Husband Ethics Years Ago Raised Interviews Husband And Wife Mother And Father Great Job

Author:Jakob Dylan

“While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.”

Should Care Hurt Justice Ethics Treated Nonviolence Premises

Author:Carol Gilligan

“We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference even if we do not see the positive results of our efforts... We can never be too generous or too kind.”

Ifs Kind Differences Results Effort Compassion Ethics And Love Universal Caring Radical Generous Making A Difference Hopeful Positive Results

Author:Marc Bekoff

“Recruiting is the lifeblood of any program, so you can't put anything above that, ... But it wouldn't matter who you had here if you didn't have the right mental attitude and work ethic. You need all those elements to come together to do something like we are doing.”

Ifs Needs Matter Together Attitude Elements Ethics Program Work Ethic Mental Attitude

Author:Pete Carroll

“All that is required of us, in our "new sexual ethic," is that we have sex in a way that favours us more than it favours our diseases.”

Way Sex Disease Ethics Favour

Author:Richard Summerbell

“We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.”

History Judging Ethics

Author:Ernst Troeltsch

“Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact”

Children Masters Empathy Ethics Impact Positive Impact

Author:Bill Drayton

“Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.”

Feelings Pleasure Bears Ethics Relation Sensations Spheres Antithesis Semblance

Book:Schleiermacher's Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato

Source: Schleiermacher's Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato

“As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.”

Running Needed Ethics Institutions Congress Reform Addresses Imperatives

Author:Jo Ann Davis

“I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.”

People Thinking Successful Behavior Ethics Democrat Productive Sentiments Successful People Work Ethic Disturbed

Author:Jamie Dimon

“It's often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. I think, if you're wise, you learn from both. You learn a lot from a loss. You learn what is it that we're not doing to get to where we want to go. It really gets your attention and it really motivates the work ethic of your team when you're not doing well.”

Ifs Thinking Want Wells Said Winning Loss Attention Wise Team Losing Ethics Work Ethic

Author:Morgan Wootten

“For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.”

“Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services, without regulation, solely on the basis of value for value. It recognizes charity and communal enterprises as voluntary versions of this same ethic. Such a system would be straight barter, except for the widely felt need for a division of labor in which men, voluntarily, accept value tokens such as cash and credit. Economically, this system is anarchy, and proudly so.”

“For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.”

Has Beens Understanding My Own Regret Duty Ethics Abstract Abandon Critique No Regrets Hegel

Book:The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations

Source: The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations

“There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.”

“...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.”

Needs Made Dream Film Science Stuff Stage Danger Ought Pure Ethics Standing Logic Mathematics Math Mathematical Nothingness Distinguished Spun Airy

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

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