A Quote by Warren G. Bennis

A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations

Warren G. Bennis

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Actions Consequences Discerning Ear Ethical Human Learning Moral Passion Purposes Refined Understanding Work

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Warren G. Bennis
American - Author
March 8, 1925 - July 31, 2014

It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would control actions. That which increases the sum of human happiness is moral; and that which diminishes the sum of human happiness is immoral. . . . Blind, unreasoning obedience is the enemy of morality.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.

Marshall McLuhan

We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.

Al-Jahiz

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

Zadie Smith

You do not separate the human being from the actions he does or the actions which surround him, but you see what it is like to break these actions up in different ways, to allow passion - and it is passion - to appear for each person in his own way.

Merce Cunningham

Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.

Philip Kitcher

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

Michael Moore

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

Stephen Dobyns

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

Josh Charles

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

Charles Colson

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

Frances Wright

I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe I also recognize that in turning empathy into a practice for many years, by turning, by forcing myself to separate at some level the humanity of a human being from his or her actions and recognizing that sometimes, even the moral aspects of a human being can contribute to immoral behavior.

Joshua Oppenheimer

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Continual learning is the key to continual living.

Dan Miller

At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations fail to draw out the greatest talent, ingenuity, and creativity of their people and never become truly great, enduring organisations. It stems from an incomplete paradigm of who we are - our fundamental view of human nature. The fundamental reality is, human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four-dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.