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I'm beginning to wonder," said Kent, sitting down now on an overturned wooden tub. "Who do I serve? Why am I here?" You are here, because, in the expanding ethical ambiguity of our situation, you are steadfast in your righteousness. It is to you, our banished friend, that we all turn—a light amid the dark dealings of family and politics. You are the moral backbone on which the rest of us hang our bloody bits. Without you we are merely wiggly masses of desire writhing in our own devious bile." Really?" asked the old knight. Aye," said I. I'm not sure I want to keep company with you lot, then. ↗


— Christopher Moore


#fool #kent #morality #family

So I'd been captured? So I was starving? Did that mean I had to shrivel up and die? I could still slither. I could still hiss. Nothing had been stolen from me except my freedom. What I needed was a new plan. ↗


— Patrick Jennings


#ethics #freedom #pet #reptile #snake

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan ↗


— Margaret Thatcher


#ethics

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort. ↗


— C. J. Cherryh


#ethic #family #feed #fight #fighting

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics. ↗


— Alva Myrdal


#life #personal #philosophy

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway! ↗


— M. Night Shyamalan


#approach #b-movie #call #crew #deal

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product. ↗


— Peter Singer


#central #ethics #fairly #human #like

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome. ↗


— Peter Singer


#asks #casualties #ethical #good #hold

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand. ↗


— Louise Slaughter


#abuse of power #accountable #cannot #ethics #function

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. ↗


— Will Smith


#excel #guy #i #know #other






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