Ethics Quotes

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people - if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are - you may have lost perspective.

We have examined a number of ethical issues. We have seen that many accepted practices are open to serious objections. What ought we to do about it? This, too, is an ethical issue.

Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about.

...moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong.

You can do what's right, or you can do what you are told.

The standards of judgement must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning....

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, any more than long-enduring whiteness is whiter than ephemeral whiteness.

As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility. – Arthur Schlesinger

Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught

In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason’s power completely to articulate it.

The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

Netiquette: The social code of network communication. Internet code of conduct based on the Golden Rule. Ethical philosophy of common rules.

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

Hunting, works for conservation like slavery works for economic growth. A guaranteed but morally awful way to achieve a goal.

Overall, becoming a carbon-neutral country would involve changes in our behaviour, but these are modest compared with the changes that will be forced upon us if we do nothing.

Politics exists in every organization, We can not deny

So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.

If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us.

Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you-they can't turn you away.

Let us be honest we have praised Angulimala, will make no difference If you convey my salute to Amrapali.

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?

There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.

Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.

A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people’s love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work.

Be true to yourself-at the core of your leadership are your values and morals.

Ethical hacking!! Is it not an oxymoron?

We opt to be seen as ‘right’ in the eyes of everyone else, rather than doing what’s ‘right’ in light of the situation.

I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.

In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted

Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.

Right and wrong applies to internet interaction. It's #Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net

If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

Good intentions are good netiquette. A conscious effort to be nice others on the internet. NetworkEtiquette.net

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.

With nature on your side, you don’t need numbers, you don’t need financing and you certainly don’t need to make friends with people you should be fightingagainst.

Socialism is politicized envy.

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn’t ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.

No, this isn't right. I don't think the people doing it know or care about right and wrong. This is all some kind of show, but I don't understand it either.

If you can’t see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it’s just as easy to not see them in your brother or sister when you can profit by treating them badly.

Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn't make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad.

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there's really no hope for you.

While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global

Everything good is good because of the love it contains.

There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?

if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without God?

If you are not rising with ethics, you will sink with every rise!