ethics

"Money talks: financing the periphery buys Berlin a leading role recasting the eurozone governance framework. The recent ‘six pack’ of legislative reforms hints at what’s to come: institutionalized fis…"

"Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle."

"A man cannot be allowed to neglect a duty which he has undertaken."

"We completely agree that description by differential equations is not only a clumsy but, in principle, inadequate way to deal with many problems of organization."

"Pressure can also make managers act out of character. Degrees of panic will cause a normally good manager to lose self-confidence and focus. Under stress, even a good plan can be abandoned."

"Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me."

"Along with this came another New Deal phenomenon, a kind of pervasive tenderness for the underdog, for the Okies, the sharecroppers, the characters of John Steinbeck’s novels, the subjects who posed f…"

"When the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a …"

"The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it…"

"The virtues of society are the vices of the saints."

"The problem with general relativity is that the principles are pretty simple and the computations are always ugly."

"Do not hesistate to attack me, criticize me, if I do wrong in my job. It is your duty."

"Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monst…"

"It is customary... to offer a grain of comfort, in the form of a statement that some peculiarly human characteristic could never be imitated by a machine. ... I cannot offer any such comfort, for I be…"

"The tug-of-war between Scientologists and anti-Scientologists over Hubbard’s legacy has created two swollen archetypes: the most important person who ever lived and the world’s greatest con man. Hubba…"

"Government of the United States was made by men of all races and colors, not for white men, but for the refuge and defense of man. If it does not rest upon the natural rights of man, it rests nowhere.…"

"人处在家庭和社会中，有时候恐怕需要讲点容忍的。Patience is the great virtue（容忍是很大的美德）。"

"They who no longer believe in principles still proclaim them, to conceal, both from themselves and others, the selfishness of the motives by which they are dominated."

"What a fine thing it would be if the North were as loyal to what it claims to be its principles as the South to its views?  p. 290"

"If I met you in a scissor fight, I'd cut off both your wings on principle alone."