#ethic

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ↗

— Freda Adler

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Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#better #climbing #ethical #even #had

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people. ↗

— Bill Moyers

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And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story. ↗

— Roger Mudd

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Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

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Evolution, energy, and ethics are the core elements that will guide us along the challenging path toward the Life Era: the first - evolution - because a good understanding of our universal roots and of our place in the cosmic scheme of things will help us create a feasible future course; the second - energy - because our fate will bear strongly on the ways that humankind learns to use energy efficiently and safely; and the third - ethics - because global citizenship and a planetary society are crucial factors in the survival of our species. ↗

— Eric Chaisson

#ethics #evolution #life #survival #age

There's nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#life

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971. ↗

— Grace Slick

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Not only to myself or before the mirror or at the hour of my death, which I hope will be long in coming, but in the presence of my children and my wife and in the face of the peaceful life I’m building, I must acknowledge: (1) That under Stalin I wouldn’t have wasted my youth in the gulag or ended up with a bullet in the back of my head. (2) That in the McCarthy era I wouldn’t have lost my job or had to pump gas at a gas station. (3) That under Hitler, however, I would have been one of those who chose the path of exile, and that under Franco I wouldn’t have composed sonnets to the caudillo or the Holy Virgin like so many lifelong democrats. One thing is as true as the other. My bravery has its limits, certainly, but so does what I’m willing to swallow. Everything that begins as comedy ends as tragicomedy. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

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