Quotes of: Work-ethic Keyword

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

Horst Koehler

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

William S. Burroughs

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the...

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Evolution, energy, and ethics are the core elements that will guide us along the challenging path toward the Life Era: the first - evolution - because a good understanding of our universal roots and of our place in the cosmic scheme of things will he...

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wr...

The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

This primary question of life organization is immensely important. If making money is the main goal, a person can often forget what his or her true interests are or how he or she wants to deserve recognition from others. It is much more difficult to ...

The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as somethin...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may ...

For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life

One salutary development in recent ethical theorizing is the widespread recognition that no short argument will serve to eliminate any of the major metaethical positions. Such theories have to weave together views in semantics, epistemology, moral ps...

Life

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

Steve Coogan

The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.

Park Chan-wook

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

Peter Singer

There really is no ethical difference between eating a cat or a chicken, a dog or a pig.

Steve-O

I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.

Luc Montagnier

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

Grace Slick

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

Barry O'Farrell

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

Robert Sheckley

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Leon Kass

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

Lee R. Raymond

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.

Jef I. Richards

I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.

James Cromwell