Ethical Quotes

There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.

People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas.

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

How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the real ethical dilemmas that we face.

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

We have the most skillful, firecest, and certainly the most ethical ground forces in the world... I'm not saying we have to commit right now, but certainly don't pull it off the table.

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else.

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.

The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.

With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.

I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is.

You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.

Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.