A man got to have a code.

Omar Little

The Wire

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Moral principles Moral theory

Speaker

Omar Little

Actor

Michael Kenneth Williams

Source

The Wire

Medium

TV program

Genre

Crime (TV) Drama (TV) Crime Drama

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

2006 2000s 21st century

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Citation

"Unto Others." The Wire, written by David Simon and William F. Zorzi and Ed Burns, directed by Anthony Hemingway, season 4, episode 7, Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2006.

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There is... Only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

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Kant, Immanuel. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten [Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals]. Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1785.

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Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, translated by Mary Gregor and Jes Timmermann. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy’s pocket.

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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs!

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Karl Marx
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Time
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Marx, Karl. Kritik des Gothaer Programms [Critique of the Gotha Programme]. Berlin: Friedrich Engels, 1891, pt. 1.

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