ethics

"How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show — it's enough to m…"

"The French Jacobins were the first to realize the political potential of class resentment. Exploiting it, they conjured constant conspiracies by aristocrats and other enemies of the revolution: shortl…"

"No man should be allowed to have an interest against his duty."

"Whatever has been remaining of the credibility of the Editors' Guild of India has been destroyed by the abject silence on a series of fake news. It has become a self-serving organisation. I have been …"

"In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not…"

"All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character …"

"Whoever is a truly good man seeks a renown not by means of an ornament that does not belong to him but by means of his own virtue."

"Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular."

"Jane Eyre quotes analyzed; themes, characters, literary devices, multimedia"

"The contrast between the morals at the centre of power and those practiced by wide communities in many subject lands presented problems of ever growing unrest."

"There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry."

"Yes! We believe in a higher principle than your virtue and the kind of morality you speak of so paltrily and without much conviction. We believe that there is no imperative or reward for virtue for th…"

"Turner was a very different man to Constable, yet quite like him in one respect, namely, his entire reliance on a guide within himself, always a characteristic of genius."

"All religions are in their nature kind and benign, and united with principles of morality. They could not have made proselytes at first by professing anything that was vicious, cruel, persecuting, or …"

"It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time."

"it is the ethical task of the individual to transcend particularity and conform to the universal, to exhibit as a matter of character and behavior the values expressed in the laws and customs of his o…"

"Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power,…"

"My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy."

"It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first."

"The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute."