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- Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles,…
- That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to…
- Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
- I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point…
- In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're…
- To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to…
- Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the…
- Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large resource endowments provide…
- Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles,…
- If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot provide…
- Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever…
- You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to…
More Those Quotes
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle