“Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.”
“No, this isn t right. I don t think the people doing it know or care about right and wrong. This is all some kind of show, but I don t understand it either.”
“Swag is my ethic, s/o to my bitches”
“The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.”
“He moved now, A tiny jerk of movement, and Elissa saw what she hadn t grasped before. that his fingers showed white and bloodless against he dark blue of his jacket, that his face was so tense that skin seemed to stretch taut over the bones beneath. Then he spoke, and she realized he wasn t calm. He was violently angry. WHY, Captain? he said, so much suppressed anger in his voice that it felt as if it would shatter something. I would have the the real question was WHY NOT?”
“He moved now, A tiny jerk of movement, and Elissa saw what she hadn t grasped before. that his fingers showed white and bloodless against he dark blue of his jacket, that his face was so tense that skin seemed to stretch taut over the bones beneath. Then he spoke, and she realized he wasn t calm. He was violently angry. WHY, Captain? he said, so much suppressed anger in his voice that it felt as if it would shatter something. I would have thought the the real question was WHY NOT?”
“If you can’t see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it’s just as easy to not see them in your brother or sister when you can profit by treating them badly.”
“I have always believed that a trademark is the life of an enterprise and that it must be protected boldly. A trademark and a company name are not just clever gimmicks-they carry responsibility and guarantee the quality of the product. If someone tries to get a free ride on the reputation and the ability of another who has worked to build up public trust, it is nothing short of thievery. We were not flattered by this theft of our name.”
“With nature on your side, you don’t need numbers, you don’t need financing and you certainly don’t need to make friends with people you should be fighting against.”
“Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.”
“Sol wanted to know how any ethical system – much less a religion so indomitable that it had survived every evil mankind could throw at it – could flow from a command from God for a man to slaughter his son. It did not matter to Sol that the command had been rescinded at the last moment. It did not matter that the command was a test of obedience. In fact, the idea that it was the obedience of Abraham which allowed him to become the father of all the tribes of Israel was precisely what drove Sol into fits of fury.”
“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”
“We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible’s single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet god. Abraham encounters God when he invites three strangers into his tent.”
“It is very wrong to kill any one[.] Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!”
“The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.”
“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.”
“Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.”