#ethic

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#buzz #carry #ethic #feeling #getting

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#fewest #human #individual #lives #people

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#broad #ethics #matter #necessarily #new

Finding a new ethics or esthetics, as Dr. Douglass asks, will not put us in a state of grace. Existence is not given meaning by importing it into a revelation from the outside. The meaning is —there, in more closely contacting the actual situation, the only situation that there is, whatever it is. As our situation is, closely contacting it would surely result in plenty of trouble and perhaps in terrible social conflicts, terrible opportunities and duties, during which we might learn something and at the end of which we might know something, even a new ethics; for it is in such conflicts that new ethics are discovered. But it is just these conflicts that we do not observe happening. Everybody talks nice. At most there is some unruliness and dumb protest, and some withdrawal. So urging the juveniles to go to church is not serious, for how will the church give them faith? What opportunity will it open? ↗

— Paul Goodman

#faith

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

— Leon Kass

#ethics #even #good #infected #logical way

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

#dole #ethic #go #healthy #reluctant

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

— Horst Koehler

#awareness #christian #christian ethic #ethic #guided

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#build #building #business #crumble #ethical

Since I was a small girl, I have lived inside this cottage, shelted by its roof and walls. I have known of people suffering—I have not been blind to them in the way that privilege allows, the way my own husband and now my daughter are blind. It is a statement of fact and not a judgement to say Charlie and Ella’s minds aren’t oriented in that direction; in a way, it absolves them, whereas the unlucky have knocked on the door of my consciousness, they have emerged from the forest and knocked many times over the course of my life, and I have only occasionally allowed them entry. I’ve done more than nothing and much less than I could have. I have laid inside, beneath a quilt on a comfortable couch, in a kind of reverie, and when I heard the unlucky outside my cottage, sometimes I passed them coins or scraps of food, and sometimes I ignored them altogether; if I ignored them, they had no choice but to walk back into the woods, and when they grew weak or got lost or were circled by wolves, I pretended I couldn’t hear them calling my name. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#empathy #ethics #politics #food

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#being #believe #better #between #connections