Quotes About Ethos

I think, in any workplace environment, the atmosphere trickles down from the top.

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

But leading lights of the Democratic Party and the businesses affiliated with them quickly embraced the new plutocratic ethos.

Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.

We might be criminals, but we're not totally immoral

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

A man shows who he is by the way that he dies.

doctors need to understand that we are businessmen—nothing less, nothing more—and the sooner we accept this the better.

Ronald Dworkin

Ezekiel and Linda Emanuel

My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour.

Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best.

Service is not something you do. It is something you are.

A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.

It was no surprise that upper-class and upper-middle-class young men thronged the recruitment halls. They had been primed for war on the playing fields, in their self-regulated peer societies, through the ethos of muscular Christianity.

As "teenager" became a group identity, a distinctive teen ethos and identity emerged; youth culture, as it became known, was born.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth.

It was what Raymond Chandler would have called "a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

C. H. Dodd puts it this way: "To over-spiritualize religion is to weaken it ethically. ,286

If an artist of the caliber of Leonardo or Michelangelo was paid a hefty commission for a new private piece of art, that artwork had to be a constant delight and stimulus for the rest of the patron's life, and then usually go on to become a family heirloom. If an artwork was commissioned by the government, it had to serve as a permanent expression of that society's ethos and values.

When you're scoring music for a film, it has to be interwoven with the narrative, it has to reflect the mood, the ethos.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.