Stan Lee Quotes

The Six Faces of the future are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

If a story is telling a truth, then why shouldn't it affect everybody?

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.

I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.

Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

All politics is an extension of ethics ... We cannot leave out conscience at the caucus room door.

The community … is the world in miniature. If we encourage children to observe directly the complex relations between the people and the land, between nature and society, they will grasp the reality of their homes, their school, the town, village or city, and will be able to understand the wider world.

Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.

We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches

We live in an interdependent world. We depend on one another for prosperity.

When 125,000 people are gathered together on 10 square miles of land they must of necessity give up certain of their liberties. It is a sacrifice they must make for the sake of the advantages of city life.

Laws are often made to express collective ethical principles, to establish a climate of opinion …

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.

I do think we have a responsibility to be aware of the stories we're telling and how those stories will be interpreted and what sorts of value systems we're celebrating.

Every day I walk down the street or hop on the subway, I am reminded that I am a citizen of a very big, incredibly diverse world.

We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's the entire world in which we operate.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.

I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.

Humans are the only ones who are the custodians of other people's morals.

We didn't create the culture of film. We certainly market it better than anyone in the world, but film could have happened anywhere. It's not distinctly American, as witnessed by the fact that there are film communities throughout the world that tell stories to their own cultural liking.

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.