ethics

"The Abolitionist... must see that he has neither the right or power of operating except by moral means and suasion."

"We insist on self-roasting, by slow degrees, and at regular intervals, to show our contempt for experience, and to develop our chief virtue, which is obstinacy."

"Morals: They’re nothing but a coded survival instinct!"

"Character means that the person derives his rules of conduct from himself and from the dignity of humanity. Character is the common ruling principle in man in the use of his talents and attributes. Th…"

"Spinoza did not envision secular Judaism. To be a secular or assimilated Jew is, in his view, nonsense. It is to be a nonsectarian sectarian. For him, Judaism without an observance of its textually an…"

"Western Christianised Europe has values and experience that is worth defending."

"Women are the carriers of society’s values ... men are deviant in the sense that many of the qualities admired in them are also one’s that society has to regard with disapproval ... Women’s Lib portra…"

"Emergency was declared. Sanjay Gandhi took over. He created an army of morally corrupt, foreign-educated intellectuals with no track record. Their biggest strength was their unconditional loyalty to t…"

"A legitimate enterprise had to have some moral basis, and the only morality the company knew was debt."

"The universal propensity to believe in invisible, intelligent power, if not an original instinct, being at least a general attendant of human nature, may be considered as a kind of mark or stamp, whic…"

"All epochs exhibit the same vices, but not all show the same virtues. In every age there are hovels, but only in some are there palaces."

"Actually, I believe in the third season, one of the characters says, "Three hundred and something", which is the number of days from that point that I would appear on the show. Which is awesome."

"If we choose, we can use genetic engineering to alter the character of our offspring. ...the motivation to do this will eventually become overwhelming."

"REGIME VALUES. An expression used frequently in public administration literature to denote the fundamental principles of a polity which, ordinarily, should guide administrative behavior. Although the …"

"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity."

"2580. Hypocrisy is a Sort of Homage, that Vice pays to Virtue."

"To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?"

"The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians."

"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."

"The first duty of the officer is to challenge whatever seems illusory."