Quotes About Ethos

My parents moved to England with that immigrant ethos of self-betterment, but I don't think they expected the kind of grief they experienced.

Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.

Trump's foreign policy is not so much immoral as it is amoral.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.

We are not willing to compromise our values in order to increase our market share.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

On another note - Sarton writes about "people in their thirties mourning their lost youth because we have given them no ethos that makes maturity appear an asset." I very much feel this to be true. Turning twenty-one is the nadir of American achievement, one can get smashed legally, and as there are no further milestones after that, each succeeding birthday reeks of diminishment. People start to lie about their age, as if maturity is a thing to be ashamed of.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I don't get wrapped up in the politics of going down to win a penalty or getting an opponent sent off.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

There is a movement we call Afro-Futurism, where we imagine a black way of life free of white supremacy and bigotry. 'Black Panther,' I think, is the first blockbuster film centered in the ethos of Afro-Futurism, where the writers and directors and makeup and wardrobe team all imagined a beautiful, thriving black Africa without colonialism.

in a people whose moral code is so lax, so little is wrong.

We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.

Cover your ass when you're bending the rules.

The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now.

In 'Dancing Drums,' I've touched on music that largely brings the ethos of religions other than my own together.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

It's easy to be good when things are great; it's tough to be good when they're not.

Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.