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• Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993).

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Powerful, Thinking, Impact

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• All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Reality, People

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

  Simon Blackburn

  Sweat, Essentials, Gone

  Simon Blackburn (2003). “Ethics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.22, OUP Oxford

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• Universal brotherhood under the fatherhood of God.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Brotherhood, Fatherhood, Universal

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• Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

  Herbert Spencer

  Existence, Solutions

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.269, VM eBooks

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• If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Suicide, Light, Order

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.91, University of Chicago Press

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• The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

  Peter Singer

  Principles, Social, Reasoning

  Peter Singer (2011). “The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• The goal that the Obama team has is to fundamentally replace the historic America of self reliance, independence, the work ethic, the people who go out and achieve because they spend their lifetime doing the right things and they want to replace it with a politician dominated redistributionist bureaucracy which in the essence would mean the end of the America as it has been for the last 400 years.

  Newt Gingrich

  Team, Mean, Self

  "Glenn interviews Newt Gingrich". "Glenn Beck Radio Program", www.glennbeck.com.

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• It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Games, Psychology, Dynamics

  Anatol Rapoport (1974). “Fights, Games, and Debates”, p.12, University of Michigan Press

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• All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

  Eva LaRue

  Children, Work Ethic, Crafts

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• My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

  Carl Reiner

  Father, Work Ethic, House

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Men, Epistemology, Knows

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.129, Routledge

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• Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling onto others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep going.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Jobs, Thinking, Feelings

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Expectations, Doe, Ethical

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• Secure in whom we are, rooted in one particular tradition or none at all, we have no reason to fear discovering God in the truth and wisdom of many traditions. Love casts out fear inviting us into happiness for all people and Creation.

  Robert V. Taylor

  People, Tradition, Reason

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• A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Powerful, Past, Ethos

  "My Dearest Daughter: A letter from the Death Cell". Book by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, p. 15, 2007.

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• Strong ethics keep corporations healthy . Poor ethics make companies sick. Values are the immune system of every organisation.

  Patrick Dixon

  Strong, Sick, Healthy

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the 'last man' he who will pay any price in tedium for comfort and the absence of tension.

  John Carroll

  Religious, Men, Comfort

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.78, Taylor & Francis

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• The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Ends, Rules For Radicals

  "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals". Book by Saul Alinsky, p. 35, archive.org. 1971.

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• ...it becomes clear that, given our diversity, no single religion satisfies all humanity. ... And since the majority does not practice religion, I am concerned to try to find a way to serve all humanity without appealing to religious faith.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Practice, Diversity

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• Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

  John Buchan

  Running, Taught Us, Long

  "A University's Bequest to Yout". John Buchan's speech in Toronto (October 10, 1936), as quoted in John Buchan "Canadian Occasions", 1940.

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• The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sex, Block, Character

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Autobiography of John Stuart Mill”, p.270, The Floating Press

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• Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .

  Francis Hutcheson

  Reality, Opinion, Virtue

  Francis Hutcheson (1769). “An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections”, p.7

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• I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

  Dalai Lama

  Ethical Principles, Want, Helping

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• The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.

  John Carroll

  Men, Garden, Eden

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