Word: assents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a livelier understanding than we did that ethics are not merely personal, but also and inescapably corporate and social," said the President. "You have come to see that to be personally satisfying and life-giving, any ethics which are to command your assent have to be your ethics; they cannot be ethics devised and held by someone else for you or ethics acquired through words without personal involvement...
Viet Nam. Assent & Dissent...
Business needs men who think creatively rather than men who merely assent to others' ideas," Blough said. "Teamwork does not mean a loss of individuality," he asserted, "and you don't have to wear a grey flannel suit...
Indeed, law and order are maintained with brilliant efficiency in totalitarian states. Order is only a virtue if it preserves just laws; and laws are only just if they are made with the assent of the governed, not the governors...
...education compromise. But there are other things that look-and are-hard for him. They are the things he is not yet good at. Usually they involve situations in global policy (and the Viet Nam case is only one, although the chief one), where getting a wide assent is not enough, and where the expanding wealth of our nation will not resolve the problem...