ethics

"Thus, fascism adopted the economic aspect of liberalism but completely denied its philosophical principles and the intellectual and moral heritage of modernity."

"A failure to help that polar bear – or any individual animal in a comparable condition, regardless of our responsibility for that suffering – is. Nor can lack of action be defended by some alleged con…"

"The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it."

"To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms."

"Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch."

"You ask if I mean to publish anything on the subject of a letter of mine to my friend Charles Thompson? Certainly not. I write nothing for publication, and last of all things should it be on the subje…"

"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."

"I am a theorist, but I detest the introduction of abstract principles into the great practical difficulties of this nation."

"Given the network-externality characteristic of international monetary arrangements, reforming them is necessarily a collective endeavor. But the multiplicity of countries creates negotiating costs."

"The war was a “tragic error,” but not “fundamentally wrong or immoral” , and surely not criminal aggression - the judgment that would be reached at once on similar evidence if the responsible agent we…"

"Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground."

"While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time."

"Socialism, is in short a manifestation of mental illness or major character deficiency."

"As a rule, Evelyn disapproved of politicians. They tended to break down into two categories: the completely unprincipled, who comprised the vast majority; and those who lived by their principles no ma…"

"Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather."

"Listen I don't expect an apology from men like Chuck Schumer, and I would put him and other individuals who were attacking me at the top of the list contributing to the low, low public perception of C…"

"Not everything that appears true is true. The ACLU is devoted to some very controversial principles — like the principle that everyone who is arrested should enjoy the same constitutional rights, rega…"

"Some virtues are only seen in affliction and some in prosperity."

"The prescriptions and proscriptions held by members of a role set are designated as role expectations. ... The role expectations held for a certain person by some member of his or her role set will re…"

"I am speaking of those years before the middle class took professional wrestling away from the working class and made of our morality play a mockery of ambition."