Any system of ethics must account for scarcity. If it doesn’t, humanity would perish due to misallocation of finite resources, including one’s own body.
Daniel Alexander Brackins
Related One’s own shit doesn’t smell OLD RUSSIAN SAYING Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ANATOLE FRANCE Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom ANATOLE FRANCE Why is there so much problem just to know one’s own Soul? The Soul resides in one’s own abode (b... DADA BHAGWAN It is due to the scarcity value. ADNAAN AHMAD If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite reso... DAVID SUZUKI Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically... GEORGE M. CHURCH Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that o... LEO TOLSTOY To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as... POPE BENEDICT XVI To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experien... OSCAR WILDE Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it. LESLIE A. GORDON Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body. CAROL P. CHRIST Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience giv... JULIAN SIMON If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to th... REBECCA MACKINNON It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the countr... WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital fun... ANTHONY FAUCI A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other stan... B. R. AMBEDKAR Professors already account for the plus or minus in their own grading system. TIM GALLAGHER You must build a system of values in yourself so that whatever happens to your body it will not have... SUNDAY ADELAJA Due to population growth, it is reasonable that construction would account for 8.8 percent of all jo... LEE MCPHETERS A good joke doesn’t necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one’s own... PAWAN MISHRA If you exercise, you call into action nearly every body system including your heart and lungs, and m... STEVEN BLAIR Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. GEORGE HENRY LEWES Hillary Clinton is a corrupt career politician who has recklessly handled classified information in ... EVAN MCMULLIN It is difficult for the woven exporters to meet the 30 percent value addition requirement due to sca... ANNISUL HUQ On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single bo... ALAIN DE BOTTON If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishin... UPHAM Learn from the Sun; on account of its warmth it doesn’t need to beg anyone to esteem it MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The repeal of laws as a means to roll back the state is not unjustified. For example, there is no co... DANIEL ALEXANDER BRACKINS An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources. BRYANT MCGILL I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of it... MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD It was his job to expect the worst of humanity, including myself. JAMES S.A. COREY Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s... VIKTOR E. FRANKL To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this ba... ALBERT EINSTEIN Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in its... G. K. CHESTERTON They laughed, carefully; it was straining, this proving one’s humanity to one another. KAREN E. BENDER Be wise do not exhaust all your resources in the periods of abundance,for you will need them most du... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the ... PETER JOSEPH One has thieving intention himself, otherwise no one can ever steal from him; no one can ever rob hi... DADA BHAGWAN If this letter system works, it should be reproducible and consistent. If this letter system works, ... MICHAEL BEN ZEHABE Good. Drink your tea," he ordered. "It will make you feel better." Nothing will make me f... CONNIE WILLIS I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and witho... HENRY CABOT LODGE If we continued in the State we were in, it was evident we must Perish-if we declared Independance, ... ABRAHAM CLARK What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing mu... AYN RAND In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, ... BRIAN GREENE What if Alexander Graham Bell's name were Alexander Graham Siren? The phone wouldn't ring, it would ... GEORGE CARLIN Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's cul... SHERWIN B. NULAND That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the E... PAUL HAWKEN If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church mus... WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Scarcity mentality measures out life by the ounce; it always concludes that the needs outweigh the r... ERIN M. STRAZA Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my ec... KURT BILLS It is due to one’s own mistake that the world continues to be remembered. Whatever keeps coming to... DADA BHAGWAN On a campus where it is difficult to form a habit to recycle for the scarcity of resources, a compet... LAUREN MECHAM We have been looking into the effects of light on every rhythm in your body. Honestly, nobody knows ... MARIANA FIGUEIRO I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of... THE GREAT PACIFIST If people cannot look up to courts for justice, wouldn’t they want to get justice themselves? Even... AKBAR ALI KHALIQDINA I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish. TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism ca... MALCOLM GLADWELL We suggest that any khipu moving within the state administrative system bearing an initial arrangeme... GARY URTON Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along ... STEPHEN HAWKING Humankind is the greatest resources. Don’t lose faith in the people. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite
shadowed forth in something finite; and ... THOMAS CARLYLE Those who talk big volume about HUMANITY far outstrip the number which actually does humanity in rea... ANUJ SOMANY If a man lives, then he believes in something. If he didn't believe that one must live for something... LEO TOLSTOY The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a fin... ALEX TABARROK It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefo... DOUGLAS ADAMS Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Home... ROMAN PAYNE It is a big, fat invitation to fraud which would overwhelm the system, and a diversion of scarce res... JANICE KEPHART Happiness is the purpose of humans so it must need to be for the good of others otherwise one’s ha... ZAMAN ALI If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. PLUTARCH If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. ALEXANDER THE GREAT If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you thin... BARNEY FRANK Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it s... ROBERTO BOLAñO What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined... PAUL SINGER For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetenc... CHARLES BASS If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising wo... HERMAN E. DALY If you file a complaint today, the rules we have now make it difficult to even get a hearing. The po... COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let t... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if... J.K. ROWLING This Universe belongs to the predator who dares to prey on its natural & human resources for the ben... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its re... WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON But judges more than anyone else have to follow clear mandates of federal law. When you violate judi... DOUG KENDALL The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subse... MURRAY ROTHBARD If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a ba... SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What ... SHIRLEY CHISHOLM If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due a... POPE BENEDICT XVI The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to accou... HARRISON CHRISTIAN To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity fro... RYAN BETHENCOURT If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly... EPICURUS People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law ... PAUL WATSON To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its ... CLIFF SHAW To reclaim your lost years, you must account for every hour of your day SUNDAY ADELAJA My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus. CHARLES ATLAS It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. FELIX FRANKFURTER Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because the... VACLAV HAVEL I’m happy to have her close even if it hurts, even if it doesn’t make any sense. TAHEREH MAFI Making smart choices in a corrupt system is no good anymore. For life to survive on planet Earth, it... IRFAN HUSAYN
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