ethics

"No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are."

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."

"A woman character without allure would be like a Superman without muscle."

"Susan Langer on the aesthethics of film as excerpted from Feeling and Form"

"Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that "plagiarism" farce! As if there was much of anything in any human utterance, oral or written, except plagiarism! The kern…"

"The wage earner. Two very important policies have been adopted by this country which, while extending their benefits also in other directions, have been of the utmost importance to the wage earners. O…"

"Abuse of any one generally shows that he has marked traits of character. The stupid and indifferent are passed by in silence."

"Character does count. For too long we have gotten by in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught. Character is doing what's right when nobody is …"

"Deep at the dark bottom of the melting pot, where the private is public and the public private, where black is white and white black, where the immoral becomes moral and the moral is anything that mak…"

"The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness"

"Through a carefully cultivated display of intimidation to anyone who contemplated a meaningful challenge, the government had striven to show people around the world that its power was constrained by n…"

"Money is miraculous. What miraculous facilities has it yielded, will it yield us; but also what never-imagined confusions, obscurations has it brought in; down almost to total extinction of the moral-…"

"I tend to believe that the difference between us and them is that we don’t compromise our principles for temporary convenience."

"These Names of Virtues with their Precepts were"

"Blushing is the colour of virtue."

"Shambhala Interview conducted shortly before the release of Boomeritis"

"Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them."

"Gradually disbelief became respectable. It acquired a moral character. By the mere fact that it was an integral part of the consciousness of a class—of the bourgeoisie—it became bourgeois. From an ind…"

"Hunting for sport is an improvement over hunting for food, in that there has been added to the test of skill and ethical code, which the hunter formulates for himself, and must live up to without the …"

"Another forerunner of modern organization theorists was Andrew Ure, a professor of chemistry. An enthusiastic proponent of “the factory system,” Ure took a step beyond Adam Smith. Whereas Smith’s pin …"