Quotes about Ethos
The contemporary American church is so largely enculturated to the American ethos of consumerism that it has little power to believe or to act.
— Walter Brueggemann
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
— Wendell Berry
The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit." (Analects 4.16)
— Confucius
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
— Henry David Thoreau
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
— Epictetus
The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.
— Thomas Watson, Jr.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
— Margaret Mead