The Ethics Quotes

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

Ethics to me is very important.

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.

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

Every cause produces more than one effect.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

There's great peace in surrendering to principles

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one

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.

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.