Ethics Quotes
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While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it. (Quote by - Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.)
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right (Quote by - Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country (Quote by - Elvin Stackman)
This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again. (Quote by - James Baldwin)
We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product. (Quote by - Peter Singer)
Change is one thing, progress is another. "Change" is scientific, "progress" is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. (Quote by - Bertrand Arthur William Russell )
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class. (Quote by - Mordecai Richler)
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin with a grin. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. (Quote by - Jorge Luis Borges)
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30. (Quote by - Steve Odland)
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well. (Quote by - Charles Van Doren)
Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics. (Quote by - Massad Ayoob)
What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process. (Quote by - Barney Frank)
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one. (Quote by - Francis Wright)
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence. (Quote by - Price Pritchett)
We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards the ethics of excellence. (Quote by - Price Pritchett)
Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong. (Quote by - Price Pritchett)
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and every man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine. (Quote by - John Scott)
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. (Quote by - Paracelsus)
It appears to me that in Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause: namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisel (Quote by - George Moore)
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. (Quote by - Jorge Luis Borges)
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle (Quote by - Ashley Montagu)
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules. (Quote by - Harry Reid)
I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
It is a public scandal that gives offence and it is no sin to sin in secret. (Quote by - Moliere)
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. (Quote by - Emily Post)
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. (Quote by - Peter Singer)
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. (Quote by - Plautus)
The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry. (Quote by - Roger Mudd)
The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics. (Quote by - Richard Curtis)
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall. (Quote by - Laura Miller)
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this. (Quote by - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi)
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. (Quote by - Felix Adler)
You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline. (Quote by - Price Pritchett)
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. (Quote by - John Perry Barlow)
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars. (Quote by - William Blake)
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling. (Quote by - Friedrich Schleiermacher)
Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971. (Quote by - Grace Slick)
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential, generosity, service, self-sacrifice, unselfishness and duty. (Quote by - Willard Gaylen)
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and the other which we practice but seldom preach. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should close instantly with the offer. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. (Quote by - Freda Adler)
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena. (Quote by - H. Jay Dinsah)
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message. (Quote by - Christian Bale)
Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Quote by - Bible)
What you get free costs too much. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
The ethics of excellence require a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment, do you mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet? (Quote by - Price Pritchett)
Quality, in its classic Greek sense, how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. (Quote by - Theodore H. White)
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. (Quote by - Richard Stallman)
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology. (Quote by - Christopher Dawson)
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. (Quote by - John Donne)
If a man is good in his heart, then he is an ethical member of any group in society. If he is bad in his heart, he is an unethical member. To me, the ethics of medical practice is as simple as that. (Quote by - Dr. Elmer Hess)
Excellence calls for character integrity fairness honesty a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board. (Quote by - Price Pritchett)
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture, and very much to our credit. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth. (Quote by - Italian proverb)
The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap. (Quote by - Price Pritchett)
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history. (Quote by - William Thomas Green Morton)
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good. (Quote by - Leon Kass)
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. (Quote by - John Perry Barlow)
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be. (Quote by - Charles Sanders Peirce)
Our moral and ethical responsibility is to protect other species in the spirit of husbandry rather than destroy them in and attitude of conquest. (Quote by - Charles Southwick)
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. (Quote by - Louis Kronenberger)
Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it. (Quote by - Price Pritchett)
An improper mind is a perpetual feast. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them. (Quote by - Huston Smith)
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling. (Quote by - Valdemar W. Setzer)
The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned. (Quote by - Lord Shawcross)
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system. (Quote by - Marty Meehan)
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible and to serve others as much as possible. (Quote by - Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi or Tolstoy)
In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of another. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment. (Quote by - Price Pritchett)
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics. (Quote by - Alva Myrdal)
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people. (Quote by - Bill Moyers)
Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide. (Quote by - Price Pritchett)
Every man has his moral backside too, which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum. (Quote by - G. C. Lichtenberg)
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. (Quote by - Jacques Barzun)
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. (Quote by - Kate Millett)
The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics. (Quote by - Corliss Lamont)
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights. (Quote by - Ron Silver)
Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics. (Quote by - Bille August)
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival. (Quote by - Barbara Ward)
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand. (Quote by - Louise Slaughter)
Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel. (Quote by - Antoine Fuqua)
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. (Quote by - Arthur Keith)
When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward. (Quote by - Swedish proverb)
Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught. (Quote by - Peter Lord)
Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical, and religious dry-rot of the modern world. (Quote by - F. E. Abbot)
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. (Quote by - Earl Warren)
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. (Quote by - A. J. Ayer)
By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind. (Quote by - Chuang Tzu)
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. (Quote by - Omar Nelson Bradley)
Ethical living is the indispensable condition of all that is most worthwhile in the world. (Quote by - Ernest Caldecott)
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. (Quote by - Jello Biafra)
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. (Quote by - Potter Stewart)
A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent. (Quote by - William Blake)
The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse. (Quote by - Price Pritchett)
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)
