Ethics Quotes

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

The best cinema is about ethics.

I'm not much into rear window ethics.

All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.

Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.

In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens."

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.

If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics.

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

My work ethic is something that I thought would help the team.

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

If you don't pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

We saw his [Donald Trump] children appointed this week to formal roles in the transition. A lot of ethics experts looking at that and saying that there is not a blind trust.

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.