Character Quote by Tony Judt Download Open image ““we have smuggled in a misleadingly ‘ethical’ vocabulary to bolster our economic arguments,”” — Tony Judt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character
“We live in a global economy where voracious political and corporate greed has turned your life into a disposable commodity to be used and… — Martin Yate Copy Share Image
“When it comes to defending the economic viability of our nation, it is naïve to count on the honesty and integrity of people responsible… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
You have the economic vocabulary turning into vocabulary of deception. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets out of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing—or more complicated—than it is today.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what we are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Ethics is not a description of what people do; it's a prescription for what we all should do.” — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“Economy that rewards selfishness, is but a glorified criminal offense.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Markets do not automatically generate trust, cooperation or collective action for the common good. Quite the contrary: it is in the nature of economic… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“ Lieux de memoire . . . 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire , settings in which memory is a… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime efforts. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could you no… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“That the state might exceed its remit and damage the market by distorting its operations was not taken very seriously in these years.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Whatever their other differences, French Gaullists, Christian Democrats and Socialists shared a common faith in the activist state, economic planning and large-scale public investment.… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“This reduction of 'society' to a thin membrane of interactions between private individuals is presented today as the ambition of libertarians and free marketeers.… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image