ethics

"There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress, as well as others, than I had any conception , before I became President of the U.S."

"Power to vary in plants or animals is itself a feature as readily transmissible as is stability of character. The quality of varying to meet varying environments is therefore one of the hereditary tra…"

"What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?"

"ertain moral imperatives are, rightly, considered to transcend national boundaries. What, after all, is so imperative about geography? Suffering is global."

"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."

"The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men."

"..the characteristic motion peculiar to the object , with the transformations the object undergoes in its shifting in relation to the environment, mobile or immobile"

"But whatever its defects, the classification of Linnæus was the first attempt at grouping animals together according to certain common structural characters."

"A man in whom such national characteristics were strongly marked, and whose time for rebirth had come, would be drafted into the English nation by his Karma and would then share the national destiny f…"

"The kind of slaughter and violence that we have seen in this war, was in my experience very rare during the Russo-Japanese war. In modern war, the whole people are mobilized. Hence the majority of the…"

"The more I have to suffer, the more my character will grow."

"Are you kidding me? We think that's a badge of honor. 'Questioning his integrity' are you kidding me? The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work."

"The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as a guide and a test in exploring equivalent processes possessing other c…"

"Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him."

"The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sh…"

"The fundamental principle of literature is to create something out of nothing and to make up stories. My creation has not been altogether fashioned out of nothing, and is not entirely made up."

"In April 1937 Franco, as effective of, fused the Falange with the, monarchists and the rest of the right to form the single party of his regime: a process, though differently conducted, somewhat simil…"

"We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone."

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."

"… the pattern of embarrassment behind the contemporary ideal of a language that will best promote good action by entirely eliminating the element of exhortation or command. Insofar as such a project s…"