Agency Quote by Richard Marshall

“Freedom to order our own conduct in the sphere where material circumstances force a choice upon us, and responsibility for the arrangement of our…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we…

— Michael Josephson

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

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of…

— H. L. Mencken

“Moral conduct,or duty,is defined as the obligation to select that action which will achieve more good than any alternative action....”

— Anonymous

“Today, these values are often encrusted in language that obscures their meaning and inhibits their potential to influence and inspire. For example, the category…

— Zachary I Heller

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

— Twyla Tharp

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“When we understand what is right and what is wrong, we are in a position to exercise our freedom in making choices. In so…

— Dean L. Larsen

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

— Corliss Lamont

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

— Adrienne Rich