Riches
Sep 29th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.”
– Antiphanes (Greece-based poet, circa 408-334 BCE)
Archive for the ‘Quote from the Ethics File’ Category
Knowledge
Sep 22nd, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”
– George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwright, 1856 - 1950)
Discretion
Sep 15th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.”
– Francis Bacon (English philosopher, 1561-1626)
Perfecting Human Nature
Sep 8th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“To feel much for others and little for ourselves, to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”
– Adam Smith (Scottish moral philosopher and political economist, 1723? - 1790)
Legacy
Aug 25th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.”
– Garrison Keillor (U.S. author, humorist, and radio personality, b. 1942)
Change
Aug 11th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.”
– Henry George (U.S. political economist and author, 1839-1897)
The Future
Aug 4th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.”
– Albert Camus (French writer, 1913-1960)
Kindness
Jul 28th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd U.S. president, 1882-1945)
The Turning Tide
Jul 21st, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (U.S. poet, 1802-1882)
Improvement
Jul 14th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“A disease known is half cured.”
– Thomas Fuller (English clergyman and author, 1608-1661)
Machines
Jul 7th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.”
– W. H. Auden (U.S. (English-born) poet, 1907-1973)
Eyes of Fear
Jun 30th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.”
– E. H. Harriman (U.S. railroad executive, 1848-1909)
Habits
Jun 23rd, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“It is not from nature, but from education and habits that our wants are chiefly derived.”
– Henry Fielding (English novelist, 1707-1754)
The Freedom of Democracy
Jun 16th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.”
– Bernard Baruch quotes (U.S. financier, statesman, and presidential adviser, 1870-1965)
Happiness and Wisdom
Jun 9th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
– Charles Caleb Colton quotes (English cleric, writer, and collector, 1780-1832)
Men Having Power
Jun 2nd, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”
– James Madison (U.S. president and founding father, 1751-1836)
A Slave to Present Position
May 27th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another that right, makes a slave of himself to his present position, because he precludes himself from changing it.”
– Thomas Paine (U.S. political philosopher and author, 1737-1809)
Not Enough
May 19th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German writer, 1749-1832)
To Succeed
May 12th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
– Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain; U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
Genius
May 5th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Genius is childhood recalled at will.”
– Charles Baudelaire (French poet, critic, and translator, 1821-1867)
