A Quote by Margaret Halsey

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

Margaret Halsey

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Margaret Halsey
American - Author
1910 - 1997

The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

Alain Badiou

As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

Margaret Halsey

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

Horst Koehler

One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.

Max Weber

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

Albert Schweitzer

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

Max Weber

The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.

bell hooks

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

Aldo Leopold

Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.

Jean Cocteau

Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of Assisi. Thus we shall arrive that ethics is reverence for all life. This is the ethic of love widened universally. It is the ethic of Jesus now recognized as a necessity of thought...Only a universal ethic which embraces every living creature can put us in touch with the universe and the will which is there manifest.

Albert Schweitzer

I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

Alice McDermott

You can have a strong work ethic. Yes, that's going to take you far. But I think if you have a solid work ethic and a passion, that's different.

Kyle Kuzma

I've been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

Jon Runyan

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

Simon Cowell

All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.