Divided Quote by Alison Assiter

Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.

— Alison Assiter

I don't even read 'the Sun' and it's my job to read everything that's politically important. I think that's a symbol of the declining…

— Andrew Neil

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

— Dennis Miller

In fact, it's become politically important to offend people, because we have to fight back against this notion that being offensive should be against…

— Lionel Shriver

“In order to understand the universal perspective, first you have to know more than a version of truth.”

— Toba Beta

“From a universal perspective, what you do matters less than how you feel about what you do.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according to individual…

— Dainin Katagiri

If someone says that they have to 'tolerate' cultural differences and cultural groupings different from themselves then that may make it difficult, at the…

— Alison Assiter

The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A…

— Aldo Leopold

In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

— Rebecca Goldstein

“Ethically challenged people with lots of analytical smarts can, with enough contortions, make almost any case from a given set of statistics.”

— Chip Heath

Respect from the clean heart for the people who are ethically right opens the door of mind to see own life in the clear…

— Anuj Somany

Ethically, what one generation tolerates the next may treat as normal.

— Mal Fletcher

Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and…

— Bruno Dumont

The 'key-log' which must be moved to release the evolutionary process for an ethic is simply this: quit thinking about decent land-use as solely…

— Land ethic