Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something…

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of…

— Carl Schmitt

My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the…

— Michael Pollan

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If…

— Yves Behar

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

— Anonymous

Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male…

— G. Stanley Hall

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many…

— Norbert Wiener

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but…

— Philip Kitcher

Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right…

— John Ralston Saul

It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and…

— Johnny Carson

Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five…

— David Mitchell

Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual…

— William J. Clinton

“Where are the ethical concerns, that so many people called animal lovers invoke, when you steal the children of wild dog mothers and other…

— Günther Bloch

In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts…

— T. E. Hulme