Dale Jamieson Quotes
Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.
Dale Jamieson
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Tarzan of the Apes, young and savage beast of the jungle, wondered at the cruel brutality of his own kind. Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. The ethics of all the others meted a quick and merciful death to their victims.Tarzan had learned from his books but scattered fragments of the ways of human beings.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein
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There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.
Lenora Crichlow
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The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.
Marcia Fudge
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The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.
Corliss Lamont
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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
Benjamin Cardozo
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'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
Nolan Bushnell
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Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.
Eda LeShan
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We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
R. C. Sproul
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Health systems are social institutions. They do far more for society than deliver babies and pills, like a post office delivering parcels. Properly managed and adequately financed, a fair and equitable health system contributes to social cohesion and stability.
Margaret Chan
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Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.
Dale Jamieson