#depart

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one. ↗

— Francis Wright

#associated #basis #beneficial #consequent #departure

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice. [...] I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims. [...] We will be streaming live my press conference as soon as I'm told Gardner is dead. Watch it at www.attorneygeneral.Utah.gov/live.html. ↗

— Mark L. Shurtleff

#death #death-penalty #executions #firing-squads #god

It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#distance #leaving #england

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#chemistry #consisting #contrast #department #hardly

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S. ↗

— John Cameron

#department #first #i #medical #medical physics

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#burn #days #department #fire #first

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research. ↗

— Frank Press

#across #country #departments #give #going

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#actions #authorities #basis #compare #department

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department. ↗

— Bill Scott

#criminal #crooks #department #did #get

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! ↗

— Thom Gunn

#by the time #certain #change #closet #department