ethics

"He was also extraordinarily sensitive to the ways that imperialists could cloak essentially materialist concerns in the language of morality, mission and destiny. Yet in the process and on more than o…"

"When the ultimate case is discussed — deployment of the German military — it should be Germany can neither answer ‘no’ out of principle or give an automatic ‘yes.’"

"We were dragged into folly by the Americans over Iran. We were dragged into folly by the Americans over Afghanistan. Neither national interest nor moral obligation requires us to be dragged by them in…"

"As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines t…"

"It is a principle universally agreed upon, that all powers not given are retained."

"Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn't."

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"Mr. Gandhi has gone very high in my esteem since he stood up for the untouchables ... Well, you have the opportunity now. I do not like the Bill but it is now on the Statute Book. I am not going to bo…"

"The familial union presents as well a mixture of inconvenient ages and characters that inhibit conversation. Morality engenders a frigid atmosphere, as in all places where it reigns."

"No contrast is greater than a man on the pinnacle, erect in stature, confident, supercilious; and the same man in the pit, bent, irresolute, and servile. Some observers insist that, in the pit, a man …"

"Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured."

"When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn a plan for ascertaining by an easy method whether o…"

"To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic — like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to s…"

"Because of the work of generations, because we’ve stood together in a great alliance, because people across this continent have forged a European Union dedicated to cooperation and peace, we have made…"

"haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent."

"Every former w. who has aged wants to give lectures about morals, especially during tours and gigs abroad…"

"There is no doubt that the contrast is patent between what we call, with too gross a classification, the developed and the undeveloped countries. ... Why is there this difference, this divergence, thi…"

"My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character , he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed."

"First there’s often protest by Asian American communities about what they believe are stereotyped depictions; by resetting the opera in Edwardian England, we don’t have to worry about that. Second, be…"

"When we assume God to be a guiding principle—well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God …"