Ethics Quote by Milan Kundera Download Open image ““In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted”” — Milan Kundera ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ethics Modern times Time
The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Some old and unrealized ideas will undoubtedly be actualized when their time comes.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“Even the best ideas have a shelf life. Do not think that the way you have done something is the way it should be… — Nicole Dominique Le Maire Copy Share Image
“When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and… — Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could… — P.W. Catanese Copy Share Image
“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
