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One of Hitchcock's greatest accomplishments (with a terrific Macguffin -- the compass!).
Queen Bee goes bye fast very fast and the moral compass is determined by Lucy Marlow when in fact it needed a sort of Anne Baxter or someone with a bit more gravitas.
The film really allows the viewer to draw their one conclusions based their own individual moral compass.
But our emotions are the algorithms, bequeathed by evolution, by which we make most decisions, including political ones; economic cost-benefit analysis that does not connect to our emotional compass does not move the needle.
For anyone who believes that progress should remain the compass guiding societies in the twenty-first century, the priority is to redefine it in today’s context and to spell out the corresponding policy agenda.
Indeed, at a time when most European political leaders are lacking in inspiration and direction, if not courage, Merkel has emerged as Europe’s moral compass.
But Obama cannot do it alone – and, so far, neither the American public nor the US Congress seems committed to reconnecting with its moral compass.
It is time for Europe – to be joined by the United States after President Donald Trump leaves office – to find our moral compass once again.
Ancient Chinese philosophers like Confucius and Mencius believed human nature was innately good, while Xunzi thought it was evil and lacked a moral compass.
After all, the secretary-general is the ultimate symbol of the UN and, in a sense, the moral compass of the international community.
Germany’s behavior today is not driven by nationalism (not even economic nationalism), but by German elites’ loss of a political compass, as well as the Berlin Republic’s new domestic and international circumstances.
Comprehending the process by which a society begins to fail to protect itself, by which it’s moral compass deteriorates, is almost impossible.
It is time for Europe’s trail guide to see reason, consult a compass, and get back on track.
Confucianism’s tenets still provide an inner compass to most East Asians in a post-Confucian age, just as Biblical admonitions remain standards for the West in a post-religious age.
When embedded in new and unfamiliar settings, our habitual ways of thinking, feeling, and acting no longer function to sustain the moral compass that has guided us reliably in the past.
By becoming more “evil smart,” we build up resistance to having our moral compass reset negatively.
As its outgoing president, Jean-Claude Trichet, put it, the ECB has “only one needle on [its] compass, and that is inflation.”
Both the ad hoc and the global public-goods schools shy away from this question, and yet without at least some working answer, we will lack the compass needed to navigate our increasing global interdependence.
This cultural turbulence is due – at least in part – to the absence of a contemporary homegrown intellectual tradition capable of providing Arab societies with an inner compass based on local values and modern perspectives.
The compass for China’s journey still points clearly to international integration.
As Tom Lantos, a Democratic US Congressman from California, put it, the move to lift the ban on arms exports to China clearly shows that the EU has “lost its moral compass.”
Sanders’ moral compass and public spirit counsel humility, a trait vital to restraining the impulsive instincts of the world’s most powerful officeholder.
That purpose can act as a compass for the business, influencing its organizational culture and values, and guiding stakeholders’ individual and collective behavior.
Culture And DiplomacyHAMBURG: In a world without a compass, few slogans enjoy as much popularity as the "Clash of Civilizations", promoted by Harvard professor Samual Huntington.
But the new international order, if it comes, will be the result not of an overarching concept but of overarching institutions, not of a compass that guides leaders through the fog of events, but of a procedure that offers a guide-rail to hold on to in the search for common solutions.
Throughout this process, universally shared and consistently reinforced values – both critical in getting disparate actors to work together to resolve problems and challenges – must provide a moral compass and common ground for action.
History can be an essential compass when past experience provides unambiguous headings.
Without any other compass, the incentive structures they adopted did motivate them – not to introduce new products to improve ordinary people’ lives or to help them manage the risks they faced, but to put the global economy at risk by engaging in short-sighted and greedy behavior.
The historical Silk Road comprised an overland and a maritime route, both of which facilitated the transfer to Europe of South and East Asian goods and ideas, from Chinese tea to inventions like paper, gunpowder, and the compass, as well as cultural products like Buddhist scripture and Indian music.
It was Gandhi’s belief that reflection could motivate action by recalibrating our moral compass.
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