Ethics Quotes

Our distrust is very expensive.

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network.

Activity is not output.

Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

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

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

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.

You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

Morality is not respectability.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

Great people have great values and great ethics.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Duty is what one expects from others.

I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.

A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

Hope is a passion for the possible.

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

Grace is the essence of theology and gratitude is the essence of ethics.

The market has no morality

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.