Ethics Quotes

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.

Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.

Living up to your commitments is part of business ethics. My word is my bond.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

I would never stay in office against the will of the people. My ethics and patriotism do not allow me to do so.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

Balance is always tough with the kind of shows and my work ethic and all of that, but that definitely helps me do what I do in the big picture.

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.