Ethics Quotes

I say I don't believe in love, but that's not really true - love is just the name of an emotion. It's like on steroids. It's lust with ethics.

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

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

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.

What is moral is what you feel good after.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

Integrity, probity, ethics and transparency is needed but most important is the culture of discipline

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

Work ethics eliminates fear.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Integrity needs no rules.

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.