Know Yourself

I’ve noticed many of my friends are so confused – morally and ethically – that they don’t even know what they stand for. Accept first who you are. Understand your principles and your values. It then follows you can decide to change. In either case, you must both be consistent with yourself and accept the consequences of your choices. A man who does not know himself is condemned to follow another blindly. A man who has no moral values is condemned to follow nothing and, in so doing,lose himself.

Convenience is often enough the opposite of conscience.

Who are our heroes today? The promiscuous, the avaricious, the ruthless, the reckless, the weak of character, the ambitious, the arrogant, the deceiving. So, pity the nation that has heroes, and mourn for the nation that needs them.

I've never worked quite as hard as I did this year. I've rarely been as perceptive, supple or persistent. Nor have I've ever achieved quite as little. Defeat is thence not a measure of effort. It is rather a function of inspiration, multiplied by exertion and support and then subtracted by ineffectiveness and context as elevated by backstabbing. Unfortunately, at the moment, second part of my equation seems to be the greater one.

Business ethics has become an oxymoron.

He who hides a mistake makes two.

If a strong economy and the end of the global economic crisis is the objective, I think we need less of a change in political leadership and more of a change in policy.

Bad executive decisions are like good boomerangs: they always come back at you.

The State has no competence in redefining moral issues. Outlawing traditional moral values or personal opinions is as clear a step toward despotism as can be had.

I have it in me to respect any serious religion, for I believe there is only one God, and if you are praying, you are praying to Him. I also respect an agnostic’s and an atheist’s right to live their lives within the guidelines of their syncretism, science or whatever else pleases them to believe, though I find it that it seems to be too much to ask that they respect my right to live within the boundaries of my religion. Yet I have no respect for those who profess a belief in a mockery of religion, such as Jediism, Witchcraft and the artificially reintroduced neo-pagan sects. Nor do I respect syncretism per se, for it is not a religion at all as much as a person confused about which precepts and concepts belong together.

It has been a VERY long time since I saw – or even heard of – an idealist taking up politics and the last one was a tyrant.