Ethics Quotes
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.
Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.
True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.
In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.
... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.
Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do
I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern.
