ethics

"No righteous rules, however rigid, are too stringent for me; I will live above them."

"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

"The ascetic was limited, and often broken, in his organizational usefulness by a naïve dedication to principle."

"Virtue never has been as respectable as money."

"Once the Internet of Things is rolled out, we are at the real takeoff point of the information economy. From then on, the key principle is to create democratic social control over aggregated informati…"

"That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution."

"We have rebelled against all controls and religions, all laws and judgments which the mighty sought to foist upon us. We kept to our dedication and our missions. By these will the State be judged, by …"

"It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteri…"

"The sixth edition includes a whole new part, on the character of virtue, and some drastic revision elsewhere. My co-editor of the work, the late Professor A. L. Macfie, was apt to say in consequence t…"

"In our judgment of men, we are to beware of giving any great importance to occasional acts. By acts of occasional virtue weak men endeavour to redeem themselves in their own estimation, vain men to ex…"

"New Options is spearheading a movement that is still nameless. He no longer uses the "New Age" moniker, as it now conjures up Shirley MacLaine and Windham Hill. Though he's active in the U.S. Green mo…"

"I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils."

"When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles whic…"

"McCain ran an aggressive, hard-hitting campaign against former Congressman J. D. Hayworth. If he had taken this same kind of principled conservative and ‘take no prisoners’ campaign against Barack Oba…"

"9) Ethics change with technology."

"All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not."

"Business of a private and important character, which cannot be neglected without great pecuniary sacrifice, has induced me to make this the occasion of tendering my resignation."

"The core idea was to be as realistic as possible and we wanted people to identify with the characters."

"I don't feel that I need to play characters who are role models for young people. If you are only good, you leave them to explore the bad on their own."

"The Morals of Economic Internationalism"