"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."
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"I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine."
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"What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process."
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"Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade."
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"I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less."
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"Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics."
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"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."
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"Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic."
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"The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine."
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"One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite."
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"TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination."
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"We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without."
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"I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether."
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"The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression."
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"He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine."
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"The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason."
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".. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive."
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"You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation."
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"Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity."
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"Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation."
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