#ethics

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Life in a box was unbearable. How did humans stand it?


Patrick Jennings


#ethics #humans #reptiles #snakes #life

To have a man whose name is on the label showing such interest, commitment, and determination for the best is a wonderful thing. This is someone who will throw money at quality, who believes in being the best. Never knock it. Would you prefer to have a bean counter in corporate headquarters, someone who never comes near the brewery, making decisions solely on the basis of the bottom line and profit margins?


Charles W. Bamforth


#commitment #corporate-ethics #excellence #quality #quality-assurance

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.


Marcus Aurelius


#ethics #evil #morality #renunciation #stoic

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.


Robert K. Greenleaf


#elderly #ethics #respect #trust #youth

Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.


Peter Singer


#evolution #evolutionary-psychology #morality #nature

Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on


Maria Shriver


#ethics

Admittedly, I do have several bones, whole war fields full of bones, in fact to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe. This should be seen as a critique of purely temporal agencies who have, to my mind, erected more obstacles between whatever notion of spirituality and Godhead one subscribes to than they have opened doors. To me, the difference between Godhead and the Church is the difference between Elvis and Colonel Parker... although that conjures images of God dying on the toilet, which is not what I meant at all.


Alan Moore


#godhead #modernity-is-a-sickness #religion #secular-ethics #secularism

Those who think that modern times are wickeder than previous times are apt to identify the cause as the weakening of a sense of moral law, associated with the departure of religious traditions of morality as a social influence... Such views give comfort to apologists for religion, who fasten on the implication that to revive a culture of moral concern people must be encouraged back into churches. But this reprises the usual muddle that getting people to accept as true... such propositions as that at a certain historical point a virgin gave birth, that the laws of nature were arbitrarily suspended so that, for example, water turned into wine, that several corpses came to life (and so forth), will somehow give them a logical reason for living morally (according to the attached view of what is moral - e.g. not marrying if you can help it, not divorcing if you do, and so forth again). It is scarcely needful to repeat that the morality and the metaphysics here separately at stake do not justify or even need one another, and that the moral questions require to be grounded and justified on their own merits in application to what they concern, namely, the life of human beings in the social setting.


A.C. Grayling


#religion #nature

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.


Dietrich Bonhoeffer


#ethics #religion #religion

Hope is a passion for the possible.


Søren Kierkegaard


#hope #passion #philosophy #possibility #religion