Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Daley

We believe we will see improvement in the ethics and integrity of city government,

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

Charles Baudelaire

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Charlie Munger

I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.

Bill Moyers

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

Bertrand Russell

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

Bertrand Russell

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

Clarence Day

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Elizabeth Warren

If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.

Brian Sewell

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

Louis MacNeice

As things may turn out in the future, people may (though I doubt it) find that their work gives them all the enjoyment - physical, intellectual or aesthetic - which they may require. That certainly is not so now.

John Metcalf

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.

Alan Parker

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

Eric Taylor

On the other hand, landowners need to be realistic when it comes to their expectations of what resources and how long it takes to reach their objectives, whether it's a crop of trees or an aesthetic view, ... Unreasonable expectation by the landowner can also result in expensive lessons.

Tom Bissell

I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.

Tracy Chapman

If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters.

Ron Reagan

You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.

Evelyn Waugh

I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression

Andres Serrano

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

Andrew Solomon

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

Herbert Marcuse

Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.

Miguel

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

Ferdinand Porsche

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Mark Poster

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

Miuccia Prada

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Norman Mailer

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.