ethics

"The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our …"

"“People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character."

"Implicit memory is responsible not only for simple perceptual and motor skills but also, in principle, for the pirouettes of Margot Fonteyn, the trumpeting techniques of Wynton Marsalis, the accurate …"

"As the empirical case for mass immigration has become less plausible, its advocates have increasingly switched to emphasizing their moral superiority: they don't look out for the general welfare of th…"

"The penis -- if you think about it -- is the most enterprising engineering feat imaginable -- a cantilevered structure, hydraulics, propulsion, pistons, compression, inflation, heat sensitive -- pract…"

"The Arab's tent... actually consists of two separate tents. The outer tent is white and acts as a heat-reflective layer. The lower-inner tent additionally protects... by providing a blanket of moving …"

"Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and Fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold."

"Competition principle does not mean a competitive edge, comrades."

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

"I found ancestors, like Shakespeare, who said, in Macbeth, that the world is full of sound and fury, a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing. Macbeth is a victim of fate. So is Oedipus. But what h…"

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"Ricketts was a remarkable scientist and a remarkable character who probably invented modern marine ecology."

"I … view deviance as the product of a transaction that takes place between some social group and one who is viewed by that group as a rule-breaker. I will be less concerned with the personal and socia…"

"The military principles of Caesar were those of Hannibal, and those of Hannibal were those of Alexander — to hold his forces in hand, not to be vulnerable at any point, to throw all his forces with ra…"

"It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant."

"I simply couldn't believe what I was seeing...All the doctors and nurses who saw yesterday's news were furious...Zhang Wenkang is ... abandoning even his most basic standards of integrity as a doctor."

"Its twenty-six articles , setting out the principles of the professional revolutionary, might have served as the Bolshevik oath. The morals of that party owed much to Nechaev as they did to Marx."

"Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties."

"Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the…"

"The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do."