Quotes About Ethos

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

The American way of life is not negotiable.

Chairman Mao taught us that "inner beauty is much more valuable than outward appearance." How

Besides, is it really stealing if you're stealing from an asshole?" "I'd have to double-check, but I don't think the criminal code includes an asshole clause.

This began in earnest with the Real Time Regional Gateway program [RTRG], implemented in Iraq and then in Afghanistan to vacuum up all possible information. The ethos of RTRG appeared in the U.S. in the form of the PRISM data-mining program. Americans were scandalized to learn from .

An organization's culture of purpose answers the critical questions of who it is and why it exists. They have a culture of purpose beyond making a profit.

You don't have to have the capitalistic profit motive philosophy.

I support the free enterprise system, and I want companies to make money, but they shouldn't be reaping profits from the deaths of their employees or former employees.

Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and prosperity we hold sacred in this nation.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

She is by no means a model character.

And of course all that he is is a gifted man without a moral sense.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

I'm sure there are people in all sports that bend the rules but I'm not going to sit here and point the finger.

Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington - as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the 'Every President Gets a Trophy' ethos?

Ultimately if you can win playing a certain way, then why not do it?

Tennessee is a program that I thought had a lot of tradition. A program that I thought stood for something.

It seems like those of us who run a business can't go five minutes without encountering the term "company culture." The phrase is always uttered with extreme adoration, yet the very concept seems as nebulous as it is elusive.

Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics.

I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk.

Kierkegaard says: "An ethic which ignores sin is an absolutely idle science.

the art of the novel revealed anything, it was that human nature was the great constant, in any culture, in any place, in any time, and that, as Heraclitus had said two thousand years earlier, a man's ethos, his way of being in the world, was his daimon, the guiding principle that shaped his life – or, in the pithier, more familiar formulation of the idea, that character was destiny.

The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.