ethics

"Honor is only a label they use for what they want you to do, Chernon. They want you to stay, so they call staying honorable."

"But I come here today, Berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations."

"Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy."

"It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles."

"he practice of thrift is not one of the most distinguishing characteristics of the people of this country. It exists more beyond the border, in Scotland, undoubtedly, than it does in England, but it i…"

"I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'."

"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way."

"In 'pure' instrumental music, the strategies chosen by composers to create unity were responsive to the tenets of Romanticism...Even in the absence of an explicit program, motivic continuity created a…"

"First comes a full stomach, then comes ethics."

"Pleasure limits the scope of human possiblity-the pleasure principle is a principle of homeostasis. Desire, on the other hand, finds its boundary, its strict relation, its limit, and it is in the rela…"

"A sure supply of flax, wrote Lord Sydney, 'would be of great consequence to us as a naval power'. At the same time the tall trees which grew to the water's edge in New Zealand and in islands near Aust…"

"In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue."

"Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational."

"By "regime values," I intend to suggest that the normative foundation of ethical standards for public servants in any regime is the values of that regime. In the United States these regime values happ…"

"A slave has no morality, because he cannot choose between good and evil. He has only a derivative morality—that of his masters."

"he secret has been out for 50 years, ever since Ben Graham and Dave Dodd wrote Security Analysis, yet I have seen no trend toward in... 35 years... There seems to be some perverse human characteristic…"

"After hearing incessantly that the people follow him without sense or discretion, he is liable to fall a victim of the delusion which he has created, and to imagine that he possesses some personal att…"

"There’s nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality."

"Modesty is an old-fashioned virtue, which, given your charms, you must certainly do without."

"Every influence, every motive, that provokes the spirit of murder among men, impels these mountaineers to deeds of treachery and violence. The strong aboriginal propensity to kill, inherent in all hum…"