ethics

"It is sufficient for your morality, not to involve yourself with the things you do not approve of in others."

"A competency is an underlying characteristic of the person that leads to or causes effective or superior performance."

"The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice."

"The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of conformity."

"While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition to misinterpret each other; and even parties directly opposite in prin…"

"On we read, confusing the characters with the incidents and neglecting the outcome, but tickled by the images and the turns of the talk. It is frivolous stuff, and how rare, how precious is frivolity!…"

"In going directly to Investment Heaven, you build your portfolio as you would build a wonderful company through a merger and acquisition program. You specify the way you want your portfolio to look, a…"

"Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money."

"Some aspects of the Spanish economy are going well, but it is not because you govern What has been your main virtue as a ruler? Not ruining the economy, and therefore I applaud. He could have razed ev…"

"There is no absolute virtue in iambic pentameter as such..however well they may be done. There is no immediate virtue to rhythm even. These things are merely a means to an end."

"If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your principles. Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdo…"

"Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house."

"Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue."

"The needs of a society determine its ethics."

"anything that systematically enhances moral hazard is simply manufacturing craziness."

"A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness m…"

"We must agree that the socialist countries are, in a certain way, accomplices of imperialist exploitation ... The socialist countries have the moral duty to put an end to their tacit complicity with t…"

"From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes, a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary …"

"The operation was wildly out of proportion to the threat. It would compromise our moral position in the world and make it impossible for us to protest treaty violations by the Communists."

"Each country will be a moral force, and no longer a brutal force; while all brutal forces clash with themselves, all moral forces make mighty harmony together."