ethics

"I am late with the new Doris Lessing . I make no apology: it has taken me a long time to read and at the end of it all I feel cheated. This talented writer has attempted an experiment which has failed…"

"If there be no nobility of descent, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent, — a character in them that bear rule so fine and high and pure that as men come within the…"

"The new Allies, which we are too apt to forget included later the new Russia, appeared to me to represent certainly, not an all virtuous body but one infinitely preferable to the cruelty and hatefulne…"

"Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practise."

"Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain."

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

"The Prophet ... feels it as a moral necessity to set Righteousness on the throne."

"All ye having business before this honorable Court draw nigh, give your attention and ye shall be heard. No, no. Draw nigh and bend over. They're going to rape you up the butt!"

"There are other ways an entertaining novel can contribute to the common good. Violence can be portrayed but not glorified. Vicious characters don’t have to be cool. Kindness and ethical behavior can b…"

"I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation."

"To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard."

"Social conservatives should be sober realists about DJT. His support for us, where he has given it , is transactional. He does not share our principles nor has he lived by them. There is real danger o…"

"Immorality and opportunism holds sway in public life. Unprincipled alliances are being forged going against the verdict of the people. This alliance is not going to last long."

"Depend upon it, nothing can be got by fraternizing with trades unions. They are founded upon principles of brutal tyranny and monopoly. I would rather live under a Dey of Algiers than a Trades Committ…"

"Our character is our will; for what we will we are."

"There is no road or ready way to virtue."

"Vision Without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture"

"Morality is cheap when someone else is paying."

"First, please note that we are not focusing here on target-market characterization. The place most crossing-the-chasm marketing segmentation efforts get into trouble is at the beginning, when they foc…"

"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his ch…"