ethics

"I am the white woman character, black woman character. I am the black man character, the white man character…I have to stand in that person’s shoes."

"Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international…"

"Above all, money-making and other external indices of social success must become subordinate to the inner attainments of moral and intellectual virtue."

"TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."

"Quitting the paint factory: On the virtues of idleness"

"Adaptation to to the modern world requires sclerosis of sensibility and degradation of character."

"Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism.... Worst of all, prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more t…"

"Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, a…"

"Each community, each discourse tradition, has its own canons of intertextuality, its own principles and customs regarding which texts are most relevant to the interpretation of any one text"

"Anybody who claims that people don’t cherry-pick their morality from the Bible, choosing that which comports with their extra-Biblical notions of what’s good and bad, is simply blind."

"When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos."

"'There are standards of immorality as well as standards of morality, Robert. Make sure yours are high.'"

"The figure wish to hold out for our admiration is described again and again. He is plain and plain-hearted; he is upright and full of integrity; above all he is a man of true manliness, of dependable …"

"Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

"Ecosocial Dynamics concerns ecosocial systems and networks, i.e. those ecosystems, including all material components, for which semiotic practices are essential to characterizing the dynamics of the m…"

"Cross-functionalism, however, cannot eliminate departmental organization; on the contrary the organized supervision of any function of this character becomes itself departmental. Thus out of cross-fun…"

"The principles for which Jefferson Davis and the South went to war cannot suffer defeat."

"In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them did not weaken the morale of…"

"The virtue of frugality lies in a middle between avarice and profusion, of which the one consists in an excess, the other in a defect of the proper attention to the objects of self–interest."

"The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers."