Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest

The punk subculture is based around a D.I.Y ethic.

How can the society move on without a work ethic?

This attitude, the Protestant work ethic, still influences Americans today.

Malaysia needs minimum work ethic gap and minimum education standards gap.

Regional governments have also been toughened up by the Chung hua , Inc. ethic.

Historically, the political ethic of confessional societies has been grounded in a single, basic foundation.

Indeed, these Asian principles can serve as a part of an emerging common global ethic.

Democratic societies, in their tremendous diversity, are powered by many different engines of commitment to a common ethic.

It has impressive universities and a high education level, well managed global companies, and a strong work ethic.

But they dare not overrun the open, commercial ethic of China's region states the source of their country's prosperity.

The intellectual s ethic is both exhilarating and harsh, for it places responsibility for thinking squarely on the thinker s shoulders.

And we believe that the people of this country are also now global citizens and will support that ethic ...

Indeed, my teenage son has been idolizing Lin s skills and work ethic ever since Lin starred on the Harvard team.

All this shows that reflection on common ethical values, a global ethic, is needed more urgently now than ever before.

The redefinition of feminism as always seeking more fulfills the requirements of consumer capitalism and a post industrial work ethic.

Such an ethic is abhorrent in today s world, where knowledge is parceled out to academic disciplines like bits of real estate.

You know, we had to be taught to renounce the powerful conservation ethic we developed during the Great Depression and World War II.

23. We resolve therefore to adopt in all our environmental actions a new ethic of conservation and stewardship and, as first steps, we resolve

An exchange between two characters in a scene from the movie Apocalypse Now captures an anti ethic that characterizes the Bush administration s policies as well

Regional governments have also been toughened up by the Chung hua , Inc. ethic. Most officials are appointed, not elected, but their posts are not sinecures.

What they shared is a paradoxical ethic common to all intellectuals the end cause of truth justifies whatever means happens to be at your disposal.

CA Can you picture, in our lifetimes, a politician ever going out on a platform of the kind of full form global ethic, global citizenship?

Although some Americans always like to boast about their superior work ethic, this disparity in working hours between the US and Europe has not always existed.

In the absence of Communist Party control, these security officers betrayed their corporate ethic and engaged in horse trading, applying force when a trade did not go well.

And whether it's Jewish or whether it's Muslim or whether it's Hindu, or whether it's Sikh, the same global ethic is at the heart of each of these religions.

Non Western societies often espouse a communitarian ethic that sees society as more than the sum of its individual members, and considers duties to be more important than rights.

So what should this ethical framework entail? A paragraph of the Declaration toward a Global Ethic of the Parliament of the World s Religions in Chicago in 1993 reads as follows

We face a challenge that is unprecedented in human history creation of a powerful political ethic of solidarity self consciously grounded on the presence and acceptance of very different views.

GB I think every religion, every faith, and I'm not just talking here to people of faith or religion it has this global ethic at the center of its credo.

It is very important to recognize that this reform of institutions is the next stage after agreeing upon ourselves that there is a clear ethic upon which we can build.

The World Trade Center was one of the most striking American implementations of the architectural ethic of Le Corbusier, and it was the seminal expression of Yamasaki's gothic modernist tendencies.

But the Union's regulatory authority is likely to be accepted by the accession countries only if it remains tied to the redistributionist ethic at the heart of the EU's social model.

And there are certainly many people in the audience who will be cheering you on as you seek to advance this global ethic. Thank you so much for coming to TED.

We do not have the basis of a proper partnership for the future, and yet, out of people s desire for a global ethic and a global society that can be done.

These trans cultural ethical rules form structural elements of a common human ethic, whatever we call it, and make almost irrelevant the idea of a deep antagonism between Asian and Western values.

CA But, surely a true global ethic is for someone to say, I believe the life of every human on the planet is worth the same, equal consideration, regardless of nationality and religion.

I'm just wondering how whether you can see that changing over time, whether you see in Britain that there are changing attitudes, and that people are actually more supportive of the kind of global ethic that you talk about.

With the threat that the US House of Representatives will approve a resolution that accuses Turks of genocide against ethic Armenians nine decades ago, this is a particularly inopportune moment for the two countries to be at odds over Iraq.

The sense of a professional ethic is conveyed by clauses in the oath that require managers to develop both myself and other managers under my supervision so that the profession continues to grow and contribute to the well being of society.

Although China surpassed Japan as the world s second largest economy two years ago, Japan is a comfortable society with a much higher per capita income. It has impressive universities and a high education level, well managed global companies, and a strong work ethic.

Everything I accomplished came from hard work. All bad things that happen to me are due to bad luck. All things you accomplish come from good luck. All bad things that happen to you are due to your lack of work ethic.