ethics

"I myself hold my friend the great Basil in high regard for his seriousness of character and the maturity and prudence of his discourse."

"We were all at one time in darkness and we sought the eternal light and the enlightened ones among us got that light. The light that we got is not merely the light of intellectual illumination that Di…"

"Charm was what he excelled at. If anyone sensed his underlying shallowness, they usually mistook it for well-hidden great depth of character, like misinterpreting a radar bounce."

"Cary would arrive on the set and everybody's morale immediately lifted. The crew were crazy about him and so was I. But, curiously, I never felt the male-female chemistry that you sometimes experience…"

"Thiago has the physical and technical characteristics of a champion."

"We argue, then, that the sociocultural system is fundamentally of the latter type, and requires for analysis a theoretical model or perspective built on the kinds of characteristics mentioned. In what…"

"It has been in accordance with these principles that we have made generous settlements of our foreign debts. The little sentiment of "live and let live" expresses a great truth. It has been thought wi…"

"He had a curiously womanish face, and, in direct contradiction to his real character, there seemed to be little strength in it."

"Highest character and integrity must be developed and all personal ambitions must be erased for the common good of the Nation."

"I’d better get back to work. It’s like butting my head against a stone wall, but somebody’s got to keep butting, if only for the sake of other people’s morale."

"It is one of the strange ironies of history, that in a nation founded on the principle that all men are created equal, men are still arguing over whether the color of a man's skin determines the conte…"

"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."

"We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception."

"The urban renewal programme is one of the most spectacular urban programmes to have been undertaken in Paris; it is certainly the one which has provoked the biggest public outcry. The renewal programm…"

"Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them."

"Duty was simply not enough. There had to be more than that!"

"The shrewd, calculating commercialism which tries all human relations by pecuniary standards, the acquisitiveness which cannot rest while there are competitors to be conquered or profits to be won, th…"

"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations — wine, beer, opium, brandy, o…"

"I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralize them."

"By the ruler's cultivation of his own character, the duties of universal obligation are set forth. By honoring men of virtue and talents, he is preserved from errors of judgment."