ethics

"Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded... on the principle of conspicuous waste."

"To have been chosen when you're in your thirties to play someone who's 120, and then to find when you were in your early fifties you were going to play the same character at your then-age, that is, in…"

"It’s a lot less consistent work, but I think with movies, you get to do such a huge range of emotions as a character, where as TV, you kind of stay on the same page. But I’d be happy with either"

"The list of the states that have joined the coalition against terror is quite impressive. They have a characteristic in common. They are certainly among the leading terrorist states in the world. And …"

"A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious."

"hile the biology of evolution is scarcely any longer questioned, the psychology and ethics of the Darwinian revelation, though following from the same premises, and almost as inevitably, are yet to be…"

"“I am a weak man, Cousin,” he replied. “It was my weakness that led to my poverty, and brought me to Mars, and prompted me to steal that egg.” He gave a rueful grin. “It would be inconsistent for me t…"

"n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency."

"What seems to emerge is not a moral reprimand of the management scientist, but rather a moral problem of the profession, a wicked moral problem."

"There are three hinges out of the completion of values, of this world and the here-after:"

"It’s unpleasant to find that what you had thought of as moral scruples suddenly seem not quite so important in the face of a stack of money."

"What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick."

"Demonstrators took to the streets to decry the nation's interim president, Jeanine Añez. The protesters, made up largely of members of Bolivia's indigenous population, view Añez's rule as illegitimate…"

"Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?"

"Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. When I am a child, creating, I a…"

"I think the statistics will prove that there is as much virtue among the Negroes as among the whites."

"It" has infected medicine, education, social science, hard science, even government with its implications. It is characterized by fluid organizations reluctant to create hierarchical structures, avers…"

"The difference between "organic" and "mechanical" in social matters is a moral one: the "organic" is the result of innumerable humble acts; the "mechanical" is the result of one decisive act of arroga…"

"Sociologists, economists, and anthropologists, who notoriously decline to distinguish between the value judgements men make and the moral realities about which men make these judgments, are occupation…"

"Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead."