Ethics Quotes

We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern.

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

There is no spirituality without ethics

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.

[Donald Trump] has done a financial disclosure, which has gone through the Office of Government Ethics. I think he's done that twice. That is his duty under the law. I hear no complaints about that.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

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

Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.

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.

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

What men do matters more than what they know.

The laws of men are not infallible.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.

To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.