In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Cath...olic countries, a successful person is a sinner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't hap...pen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlim...ited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative! All information should be free. Mistrust authority--promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position. You can create art and beauty on a computer. Computers can change your life for the better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Musicians are seldom unemotional; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed. Girls brought up [as you wer...e,] in a very strait-laced and puritan fashion, always pant for liberty and happiness, and the happiness they have never comes up to what they imagined. Those are the girls that make bad wives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the Catholic world, one can leave one's home and wander in various fields, but the tents of the Church are large, its compassio...n great, forgiveness easy. The loss of home in Protestant living is more difficult, yet not shattering, for each man is still a part of the entire community who are bound by an impersonal ethic of love. But in Jewish life, each home is an island unto itself, and the severing of the ties of family and tradition causes a tremor which can never be settled. The position of the Jews through the centuries, a stranger in every land, no voice, no ban their own, deepens this traumatic condition. For not only have they no home as their own as a people, but within each alien culture the strange gods tear away the sons and there is no home in the family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Christianity was only a very strong and singularly well-timed Salvation Army movement that happened to receive help from an unusua...l and highly dramatic incident. It was a Puritan reaction in an age when, no doubt, a Puritan reaction was much wanted; but like all sudden violent reactions, it soon wanted reacting against.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm a Sunday School teacher, and I've always known that the structure of law is founded on the Christian ethic that you shall love... the Lord your God and your neighbor as yourself--a very high and perfect standard. We all know the fallibility of man, and the contentions in society, as described by Reinhold Niebuhr and many others, don't permit us to achieve perfection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »