Quotes About Ethos

Moral codes are useful only when we have descended to needing them.

What I mean is that we were ambitious, in a way that would have been unusual a generation before, to serve gentlemen who were, so to speak, furthering the progress of humanity.

The Golden Rule is clear: do not sound like a lawyer any more than is absolutely necessary.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

In China we believe "rob the rich to feed the poor." But robbers here have no poetry.

There's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one.

Good intentions are the best business.

This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

A bullying occasion should not be about the bully. That's just what the bully wants. It's about the audience. And a bully can give you the chance to enhance your ethos to that audience.

Brooklyn Heights, where a frankly socialist ethos stood in bald contrast to soaring tuition

Good teams have a compelling product vision that they pursue with a missionary-like passion. Bad teams are mercenaries.

qualquer pessoa encontra, encarnadas nessa vida, as convicções que lhe são mais importantes lado a lado com aquelas que mais profundamente abomina.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

One dies the way he lives.

People in my organization were very outspoken about what we should be doing with the Department of Defense. One of them is work on autonomous weapons. That, to me, is something I don't want to work on or have anything to do with.

Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.

We have not let injustice to be done to anyone. We have been following the policy of 'justice to all, appeasement of none.'

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

I have never broken a contract in my career.

I've never played for a contract or money or any of those things.

I think culture is a big word for corporate character.

I do like crossing moral boundaries.