Ethics famous quotes

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
-- A.J. Ayer

#Ethics #Morality #Divine

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.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Integrity #Ethics #Plans

Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.
-- Achille Silvestrini

#Business #Home #Ethics

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
-- Adam Michnik

#Different #World #Ethics

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.
-- Adrian Cadbury

#Decision #Ethics #Morality

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.
-- Aga Khan IV

#Islamic #Responsibility #Ethics

Economics and ethics have little in common.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Littles #Ethics #Common

A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
-- Ai Weiwei

#Mean #Historical #Ethics

Ethics to me is very important.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Important #Ethics

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
-- Albert Einstein

#Business #Ethics #Physics

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Men #Sacred #Ethics

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Compassion #Foundation #Ethics

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Ethics #Morality #Reverence

The best cinema is about ethics.
-- Alexander Payne

#Cinema #Ethics

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Pregnancy #Liberty #Ethics

The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years since 1989, the morality of the economy has fully prevailed over the ethics of politics and democracy.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Years #Democracy #Ethics

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics
-- Alva Myrdal

#Philosophy #Ethics #Life Is

A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.
-- Amish Tripathi

#Character #Ethics #Good Times

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
-- Anais Nin

#Honesty #Bears #Ethics

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.
-- Andrew Carnegie

#Integrity #Lines #Ethics

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.
-- Angela Sidney

#Stories #Ethics #Moral

Being good is good business
-- Anita Roddick

#Responsibility #Ethics #Good Business

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Ethics #Logic #Accomplished

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
-- Aristotle

#Truth #Honesty #Ethics

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

#Ethics #Conviction #Concerned

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

#Civilization #Ethics #Ethical

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Retrospect #Ethics #Easy

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#World #Facts #Ethics

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.
-- Austin Phelps

#Religious #Principles #Ethics

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
-- Ayn Rand

#Inspirational #Respect #Ethics

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
-- B. R. Ambedkar

#People #Ethics #Social

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
-- B. R. Ambedkar

#Victory #Ethics #Conflict

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.
-- B. R. Ambedkar

#Live Life #Victory #Ethics

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
-- Baltasar Gracian

#Respect #Self Esteem #Ethics

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

#Delay #Ethics #Republican

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
-- Ben Harper

#Long #Ethics #Moral

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Technology #Ethics #Significant

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
-- Bill Moyers

#People #Ethics #Stranger

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
-- Bille August

#Ethics #Moral #Study

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#Children #Ethics #Morality

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
-- Christopher Dawson

#Christian #Way #Ethics

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
-- Christopher Hampton

#Faces #Violence #Ethics

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Beauty #Ethics #Goodness

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
-- Clarence Day

#Reality #Ethics #Morality

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.
-- Corinne Maier

#Ethics #Used #Conscience

ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it ...
-- Corinne Maier

#Culture #Ethics

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

#Ethics #Realms #Willing

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.
-- Corliss Lamont

#Past #Ethics #Morality

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.
-- Dalai Lama

#Thinking #Way #Ethics

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

#Philosophy #Needs #Ethics

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.
-- Dan Barber

#Thinking #Flavor #Ethics

It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business
-- Daniel Katz

#Responsibility #Purpose #Ethics

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
-- Darby Conley

#Principles #Ethics #Annoying

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
-- David Copperfield

#Magic #Secret #Ethics

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.
-- David E. Kelley

#Thinking #Law #Ethics

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.
-- David Riesman

#Generations #Ethics #Young

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
-- Derek Freeman

#Needs #Ethics #Morality

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.
-- Derrick Bell

#People #Ethics #Ethical

Because like all ***** you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.
-- E. L. Doctorow

#Gold #Useless #Ethics

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
-- Earl Warren

#Sea #Law #Ethics

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
-- Edith Sitwell

#Ethics #Be Good #Respectable

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
-- Ellen Glasgow

#Redemption #Ethics #Economy

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
-- Enoch Powell

#Responsibility #Ethics #Action

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Self #Trying #Ethics

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.
-- Eric S. Raymond

#Giving #Able #Ethics

Why are we trying to measure social media like a traditional channel anyway? Social media touches every facet of business and is more an extension of good business ethics.
-- Erik Qualman

#Media #Trying #Ethics

We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.
-- Ernst Troeltsch

#Judging #Ethics

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
-- Fidel Castro

#Poverty #Ethics #Morality

Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .
-- Francis Hutcheson

#Reality #Ethics #Opinion

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Faults #Ethics #Virtue

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Inspirational #People #Ethics

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.
-- Frederic Raphael

#Communication #Ethics #Arguing

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Science #Individuality #Ethics

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.
-- Gary Oldman

#Ethics #Given #Live By

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.
-- George Hamilton

#Work Ethic #Serious #Ethics

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
-- George R. R. Martin

#People #Littles #Ethics

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.
-- Georgia Harkness

#Mean #Religion #Ethics

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
-- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#Work Ethic #Matching #Ethics

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
-- Grace Slick

#Use #Ethics #Things Change

Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.
-- H. Jay Dinshah

#Men #Hyenas #Ethics

Each is responsible for his own actions.
-- H. L. Hunt

#Ethics #Action #Responsible

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.
-- Hans Kung

#Rights #Essence #Ethics

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.
-- Harsha Bhogle

#Work Ethic #Consistency #Ethics

Morality is a private and costly luxury.
-- Henry Adams

#Luxury #Ethics #Morality

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.
-- Henry Bergh

#Mean #Animal #Ethics

Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.
-- Henry Bergh

#Animal #Men #Ethics

I'd rather be right than President.
-- Henry Clay

#President #Ethics

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

#Important #Ethics

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
-- Heraclitus

#Lying #Justice #Ethics

Every cause produces more than one effect.
-- Herbert Spencer

#Causes #Ethics #Produce

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.
-- Herbert Spencer

#Ethics #Existence #Solutions

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Regret #Vices #Ethics

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

#Christian #Ethics #Action

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
-- Hugo Ball

#Ethics #Morality #Ethical

They don't produce anything. All they do is guide you through the labyrinth of the legal system that they created - and they keep changing it just in case you start to catch on.
-- Ian Shoales

#Labyrinth #Legal System #Ethics

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
-- Immanuel Hermann Fichte

#Ethics #Deserve

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...
-- Immanuel Kant

#Two #Mind #Ethics

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Ethics #Morality #Dogma

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
-- Irving Babbitt

#Sentimental #Ethics #Virtue

Living up to your commitments is part of business ethics. My word is my bond.
-- Isadore Sharp

#Commitment #Ethics #Business Ethics