#appropriate

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#education #health #illegal #inappropriate #involving

Due to some dim but irresistible notion of the way things are, it is simply not possible, out of order, not apprpriate to the situation at hand, if, within the circle of those who are experienced and advanced in years, the young person declaims ethical generalities. Young people will again and again find themselves in a situation that is so irritating, astounding, and incomprehensible to them that their word falls on deaf ears, while the word of an older person is heard and has weight even though its content is no different at all. It will be a sign of maturity or immaturity whether this experience leads them to understand that what is at stake here is not the stubborn self-satisfaction of old age, or the anxious effort to keep youth in their place, but the pereservation or violation of an essential ethical law. Ethical discourse needs authorization, which youth are simply not able to bestow upon themselves, even if they speak out of the purest pathos of their ethical conviction. Ethical discourse does not merely depend on the correct content of what is said, but also on the speaker being authorized to say it. Its validity depends not only on what is said, but also on who says it. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#appropriateness #ethics #validity #wisdom #youth

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#go #insane #reality #response #sometimes

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#beginning #being #being human #end #epic

They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#appropriate #band #certain #certain things #could

What's appropriate in America anymore? ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#anymore #appropriate

We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#action #appropriate #believe #bse #caution

The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days? ↗

— Lynn Westmoreland

#appropriate #back #billion #changing #come

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#acting #because #being #considered #day-to-day

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#action #appropriate #appropriate time #been #exit