The Ethics Quotes

From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

Ethics is inescapable.

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.

Walt Shaub is a true ethics hero for speaking out.

I think Jason Chaffetz was correct to call for an investigation into the Government Ethics Department in the government for the positions that they've taken in this campaign.

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.

Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others.

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity.

Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.

We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.

In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.

If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

Rise above principle and do what is right.

The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.