Quotes About Ethos

Culture is the way we do things around here.

Toda nuestra vida es de una moral sorprendente. Entre la virtud y el vicio jamás hay un instante de tregua

We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire.

I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often - if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.

The greatest good, all that, which is also just a way of saying the least bad

Beliefs are not related to religion but they are basically about who you are.

During the 1980s, across a long, bitter uprising against the Soviet Union, Afghan mujaheddin had not participated in suicide attacks. The mujaheddin's prideful, family-supported ethos of jihad emphasized individual bravery and, where possible, living to fight another day. When the Taliban conquered Afghanistan during the late 1990s, Mullah Mohammad Omar and his commanders did not employ suicide bombers, either.

Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.

I don't knock anyone's hustle, but I didn't want to slap my name on anything that wasn't authentic to me.

In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side.

But for all his admiration of the student's intelligence and ability to internalize Russell's arguments, he is dismayed by the young man's willingness to accept those arguments without question. This is a great insight into the revolutionary ethos, especially insofar as it is found in the minds of the young. The college campus rebel bravely questions the existence of God or long-standing societal customs but never thinks to question that which he seeks to replace them with.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

I reject the notion that science is by its nature secretive. Its culture and ethos are, and for very good reason, collective, collaborative, and communicative.

What is there in the precepts of science that keeps a scientist from doing evil?

reject the notion that science is by its nature secretive. Its culture and ethos are, and for very good reason, collective, collaborative, and communicative.

To paraphrase a quote from Fog and associates (2005): if a school does not stand for something more profound than raising achievement levels, then it probably does not make a memorable difference to teachers, students, or parents.

Killing is a terrible thing, too. I hate killing. But killing isn't necessarily wrong.

The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

The ends must justify the means.

I never think the ends justify the means.

Everything I do in business - and in the kitchen, period, I believe - goes from 1940 to 1978. It's the right way. It's the old way.

Every story is informed by a worldview.

Islam has strong social aspects based around the concept of ummah – the community of believers – and expressions of individualism or nonconformity tend to be frowned upon. Members are expected to pull together and behave (at least in public) in ways that uphold its Islamic ethos. Thus, when someone breaks away from established norms – especially if they do so publicly – they are liable to be seen as damaging communal solidarity