ethics

"It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve…"

"“On the ground either of positivism or of materialism, ethics can never, properly speaking, be morals. If it escapes fatalism of the hardest sort, with all the consequent hopelessness for most, it can…"

"Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."

"It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But wh…"

"Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour."

"Sexual Ethics in Islam and in the Western World, or"

"Deception, in turn , suggests morality: the morality of deceiving people into thinking something is so when it is not. The moral principle is this: whoever attempts to tame a part of a wicked problem,…"

"Lord Peter Wimsey: The first thing a principle does — if it really is a principle — is to kill somebody."

"Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence."

"If we had wanted to conduct a pogrom against the Jews, it would all have been over now."

"Great Warriors like Mayadunne, Veediya Bandara, Seethawaka Rajasinghe, Vimaladharmasuriya I, Senarath, Rajasinghe II, Nikapitiye Bandara and Edirille Rala who fought the Portuguese to preserve our ter…"

"In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and…"

"Before we can establish any immutable 'principles' of administration, we must be able to describe, in words, exactly how an administrative organization looks and exactly how it works."

"My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it."

"The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement."

"I think it spoke to me so strongly when I first saw it because it set itself a very precise challenge: presenting a totally new world, which nonetheless has the capacity to make the viewer relate and …"

"In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect by means of getting the hearer to recognize his intention to produce …"

"If the tendency of Fellowship in the Society is to develop certain habits of philosophic thought, its tendency is even stronger to give rise to definite ethical views and moral principles. However muc…"

"The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies; but he cannot wholly escape their influence."

"Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest."