Quotes About Ethos

Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it's not okay for those people to do it themselves?

The only way to create an ethical culture is to live it.

The result is that children now live in an "ethos of fantasy consumerism." Modern American childhood, says Cross

The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.

Just say no to pillaging.

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

Consider what the word "augmentation" means. The idea is that you augment something already existing. Many who do it destroy that essential something in the process – become more their additions than themselves. It is part of the haiman ethos to retain that humanity until such a time as it becomes possible to truly extend self. They call themselves haimans but know that until that becomes possible they are not truly post-human.

If his ethos had inspired those in charge of cutting government waste, we'd be turning a surplus in a finger snap.

La norma ética nos prohíbe ver a los hombres como medios y al Hombre como fin.

Act only on the maxim which you can will as a law for all rational beings," and "Act so as to treat rational beings always as ends in themselves and never as means only." Kant

A worthy man is not always a holy man.

Scientists are mistaken if they think that because the society that surrounds them revels in the plenty that science bestows, it has developed a frame of mind that reflects the scientific ethos. More ancient tendencies are in play in the collective imagination.

The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.

A leader is someone with the power to project either shadow or light onto some part of the world and onto the lives of the people who dwell there. A leader shapes the ethos in which others must live, an ethos as light-filled as heaven or as shadowy as hell. A good leader is intensely aware of the interplay of inner shadow and light, lest the act of leadership do more harm than good.

Science itself does not adjudicate on moral values. When all available facts are in, we may still face the questions "What should we do?

Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.

Christ, chief, what do they do to these people? Are we working for psychopaths

Acceptance of truth is fundamental to our ethos. To determine truth we must first listen to all opinion.