Habits Quote by James C. Scott

“Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it is an…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

— Warren Buffett

“A person’s inaction is the result of the inaction of all the others, making conclusions that there is nothing necessary to be done.”

— 30 Minutes Flip

“The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.”

— Lesslie Newbigin

To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability…

— Val Plumwood

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

— Valdemar W Setzer

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even…

— Stanley Milgram

To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous…

— Albert Einstein

Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.

— Baron Moulton John Fletcher Moulton

“The moment a realm of intellectual activity is codifiable, it ceases to be uniquely human.”

— Anonymous