top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise."
Standard
Customized
More
"Walking is great to be used as an exercise program."
Author Name
Personal Development
"With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Exercise is labor without weariness."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things."
Nationalism
"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."
Compromise
"In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues."
Ethics
"As we realise that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest."
People
"In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts."
Power
"Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with."
Time
"My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues."
Work
"I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics."
Ethics
"I would just like to get him to think about these things; whether what's happening in Iraq is promoting the culture of life. The worry is that he is so certain that he know where he's going to lead the country."
Life
"You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome."
War
bottom of page