Place Ethical Society

Famous quotes containing the words place, ethical and/or society:

“Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)

“There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one’s good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

“It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)