ethics

"Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce."

"Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept."

"I am for no master nor moral persuasion. I am for myself. What your yearning soul, madam, might mistake for loyalty to person or Purpose is merely a firm and, aye, principled determination to accept r…"

"Morally, good theatre and film for that matter disturbs and unnerves us, tries to rid us of our cliched reactions to the world around us by expanding our sympathies, stretching our imaginations, and e…"

"Whitehead's Principle of Relativity" by John Lighton Synge"

"The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation."

"By the 1990s, it was no longer possible to speak, with any intellectual integrity, of a Soviet Union of Stalin as having been informed by a ‘proletarian’ economic system, or possessed of a ‘working-cl…"

"He is a very weak man, without firm opinions and most unclear in his goals. Unfortunately he is biased in extreme liberal ideas and does not want to accept that in these times a sovereign with such pr…"

"Modern Commentaries on Seneca's Epistulae Morales"

"Force always attracts men of low morality."

"If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business."

"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us."

"I came up no backstairs...Little did I think to be ever charged in this House with being the tool and abettor of secret influence. The novelty of the imputation only renders it so much the more contem…"

"There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country."

": Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue."

"We need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of good relationships between allies and protect personal, confidential data."

"The man-like Apes... have certain characters of structure and of distribution in common."

"Now, all State institutions, as I also before maintained, act solely on the substance of the doctrines in a greater or less degree; whilst as regards the form of their acceptance by the individual, th…"

"Del Piero is a champion with extraordinary technical ability and wonderful characteristics. When he is selected he never disappoints. He is an example to us all." "He has great skills and intuitions t…"

"Oligarchies have generally sprung from the ruins either of monarchy or of democracy. When supreme power falls into the hands of a weak sovereign, the great nobles encroach upon the prerogatives of the…"