Ethics Quotes

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

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

Grub first, then ethics.

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

What you get free costs too much.

Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I dont know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

I think I have a really good work ethic.

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

Work ethic = dreams! That to me is that no one gets a free ride. You have to work for it and it doesn't get handed to you.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

If you can't trust people, who can you trust?