The Ethics Quotes

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

Honest people have no ethics

We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

The market has no morality

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

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

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!

In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

Ethics to me is very important.

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.