#conduct

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. ↗

— Jane Porter

#always #apt #astonished #capable #conduct

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#appropriate #cannot #church #civil #civil society

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

#because #change #conductor #difficult #first

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#conduct #final #good #highest #law

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#conducted #government #often #principles #reformers

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#authorized #between #buried #cia #conducting

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. ↗

— Elihu Root

#aim #argument #causes #conduct #creating

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#circumstances #conduct #depends #either #everything

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#judgment #neither #never #older #tired

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#conducting #expecting #great #i #me