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  • Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.

    Ethos   People   Valleys  
  • On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

    Life   Ethos   Saint  
  • With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

    Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.30, Stanford University Press
  • When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it by a term used by Sufi thinker Hakim Bey, as "temporary autonomous zones." That for me sums up some of Whitman's sense of a community of likeminded people with a certain kind of adhesiveness and connection and sharing of this ethos.

    School   Ethos   People  
    Source: logosjournal.com
  • A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos together.

    Ethos   Vision   Together  
    Source: logosjournal.com
  • 'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

    Art   Ethos   Crumbling  
  • Apart from a couple that were just having fun with the concept and making fun of [Donald] Trump - like the one we did with Keegan Michael-Key - they really are little hero narratives. The whole "Save the Day" - it's called that, specifically, for a reason - ethos is there is this heroic act called voting. And the world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake.

    Couple   Fun   Hero  
    "Joss Whedon Explains Why Donald Trump Is America’s Scariest Big Bad". Interview With Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. November 1, 2016.
  • It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

    Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.18, Pan Macmillan
  • Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

    Ethos   Vision   Males  
    bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.14, Routledge
  • Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.

    Religious   Atheist   War  
    Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.70, Macmillan
  • Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos.

    Ethos   Together   Way  
    Source: logosjournal.com
  • I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.

    "What Color Is a Conservative?". abcnews.go.com.
  • This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.

    Growing Up   Fall   Ethos  
  • I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.

    Song   Ethos   Feelings  
  • Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.

  • Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal hot waters if you say anything negative about Islam. This means that the truth about Islam cannot be said but Muslims are given total freedom to spread their religion with lies. Islam thrives were truth is suppressed. That is one reason that westerners convert to Islam. They are lied to. How do you expect a society to survive when truth is banned and lies are allowed?

    Country   Lying   Mean  
    Source: myislam.dk
  • Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

    Time   Eye   Reality  
  • No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

  • A universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture.

  • The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

    Ethos   Mad   Childhood  
  • I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.

    Thinking   Ethos   Bigger  
  • In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

    Art   Ethos   Design  
  • No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

    The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
  • The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

    Rocks   Ethos   Heaven  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Hip-hop had become overly aspirational and shiny, full of vivid technicolors. Cosmetic fronting was not part of the ethos of our get down. Our get down was more blue collar. Our aspirations were to shine a light on the plight and experience of the inner cities of America.

    Cities   America   Light  
    Source: www.thefader.com
  • Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

    Jeffrey Sachs (2011). “The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall”, p.3, Random House
  • The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

    Life   Mean   Self  
  • I come from a land where the idea of the whole world being one family is rooted in our ethos 'vasudhaiva kutumbakam'.

    Land   Ideas   Ethos  
  • The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.

    Ethos   Law   Ideas  
    C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.100, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

    Ethos   Tasks   Might  
    Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.129, Simon and Schuster
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