Ethics Quote by Richard Kluger Download Open image ““The cost of contemplating history is often an uneasy conscience.”” — Richard Kluger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ethics History
“I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others,… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If only the significant history of human thought were to be written,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the study of history is cheaper than the exercise of unearned self-righteousness that derives from nothing more virtuous than ordinary hindsight.” — Edwin Yoder Copy Share Image
“We should learn from history, but always look to the future, bearing in mind that our decisions will shape it.” — Alexander Stubb Copy Share Image
“What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“History is a record of good choices and bad, the people who made them, and the consequences of those choices.” — John Edgell Copy Share Image
“There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“Making sensible choices is short-term thinking; they never make for good memories.” — C.L.J. Barr Copy Share Image
Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the… — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
“White Americans cannot deny their long history of abusive transactions with people of color. These offenses, it should be noted out of fairness, can… — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
“Americans, from the beginning and throughout much of their history, were a warrior people when dealing with those who stood in their path.” — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
“Scholars have estimated that by 1850, the aboriginal population in North America—besieged by the invaders’ explosive weaponry, wondrous technology, contemptuous cruelty, and irresistible pathogens,… — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
“Still, it had been a triumphal six-week tour. The nervy, smooth-talking governor had dispossessed the natives of 20,000 square miles without firing a shot.… — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
“Output had fallen to about half that figure in the last years of the Red empire, causing a cigarette shortage so severe that Soviet… — Richard Kluger 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
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
