ethics

"It is characteristic of executive roles that they are specialized for the handling of situations which call for something more than routine action. When business executives are asked what is the essen…"

"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike."

"All that Christianity has added to morality is worthless and useless. Not only so—it has been hurtful. Take Christianity from morality and the useful is left, but take morality from Christianity and t…"

"Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs."

"Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct."

"We moralise among ruins."

"Nothing upsets me as much as a shop window jammed full of objects; such windows literally depress, sadden, even demoralize me."

"Social differentiation is a universal characteristic of human societies. Early human societies survived and became dominant among animal species because of their superior social organization — that is…"

"Each song is like a short movie...And each character is different."

"The history of nations is a melancholy chapter, that is, the history of their Governments. I am sorrowfully of opinion that, though virtue of splendid quality dwells in high regions with individuals, …"

"A new, physically uncompromised, metaphysical initiative of unbiased integrity could unify the world."

"Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory:—That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and pres…"

"The kingdom is not an amorphous jumble of regions, but a closely organized state in which the character of one region is close to that of its neighbor. There are few sharp boundaries. Rather, the land…"

"“Sir John Bowring, who negotiated the treaty of 1855, was able to secure the principle of extra-territoriality for British subjects, permission to build churches and exemption of all duty for import o…"

"The war-party is assuredly right in affirming and reaffirming that the martial virtues, although originally gained by the race through war, are absolute and permanent human goods. Patriotic pride and …"

"The deprivation of physical sensory pleasure is the principle root cause of violence."

"Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch."

"It is necessary to make virtue fashionable."

"A thing, moderately good, is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice."

"First Principles Herbert's 'First Principles' online"