Quotes About Ethos

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

The oil business, as Erickson understood it, was and had always been amoral.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't 'light and nice,' it's light and truth.

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

seemed that the DIY ethos that gave birth to the indie rock movement was threatening to become its undoing. Now everyone was doing it themselves—and a lot of it was mediocre. And like an oversize herd of deer, there was simply too much of it for all to thrive.

It was said that L.A. was a sunny place for shady people.

Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

We quickly figured out that some companies actually have a moral compass and some of them don't," said Joe.

It went that way with much of what they needed to buy: some companies sought to exploit the moment; others sought to help. "We quickly figured out that some companies actually have a moral compass and some of them don't," said Joe.

For an American like me, growing up linked to a very different food chain, yet one that is also rooted in a field of corn, not to think of himself as a corn person suggests either a failure of imagination or a triumph of capitalism.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

I was drawn to the ethos of WP, which believes in building a strong and reasonable opposition that contributes to our political landscape in Singapore in a constructive manner. It's a party that does not oppose for the sake of opposing.

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.

Most of them ran counter to the ethos of BBLR. Virtually all of them made the tax code more complicated—including that bizarre "anti-complexity clause," Section 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii)(IX). Three decades after the passage of the 1986 reforms, the U.S. tax code is a mockery of the BBLR principle.

The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.

As one prominent obstetrician put it, "Doctors are gentlemen, and gentlemen's hands are clean.

Anonymity breeds irresponsibility.

I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.

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