Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty."
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Ethics
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"No one is happy unless he respects himself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
Michael Jordan
Professional Basketball Player
"I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man."
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"A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true."
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"Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose."
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"Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability."
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"Life is the sum of your choices."
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"You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic."
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"Morality is only moral when it is voluntary."
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"If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others."
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"For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength."
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"Do not be a magician - be magic!"
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"Ethics and aesthetics are one."
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"Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics."
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"I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic."
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"Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe."
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"Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich."
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"As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery"
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"What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives."
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"The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can."
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"The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals."
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"Let unswerving integrity be your watchword."
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"Integrity needs no rules."
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