Thomas Cochrane famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
-- Thomas Cochrane

#Respect #Order #Tolerance
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
-- Thomas Cochrane

#Loyalty #Community #Citizens
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
-- Thomas Cochrane

#Moral Absolutism #Spheres #Physics

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.
The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.
The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one anotherâ€™s customs and opinions; respect for one anotherâ€™s rights and feelings; awareness of one anotherâ€™s needs.
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Thomas Cochrane famous quotes

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