Ethical Quotes
Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.
Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.
I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs
Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior
President Trump and his family are complying with all the ethical rules, everything they need to do to step away from his businesses and be a full-time president.
I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.
Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.
All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.
Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as its ethical standpoint.
There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.
The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.
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
The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.
Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"
The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward.
As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.
If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members
Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I dont know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.
I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people.
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.
Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.