Ethical Code Quotes

#1. If Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code

Woodrow Wilson

#2. Christianity is not an ethical code. It is a love affair, a Spirit-filled way of living aimed at making us professional lovers of God and people.

Brennan Manning

#3. We all have our moments. But you can switch it around. Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society - what the ethical code is.

Michelle Rodriguez

#4. Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate from the will of a ruler, to choose whether a man should live by grace of law, or law by grace of man. In a literal sense Moses lives at every council table today.

Charlton Heston

#5. Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.

Sholem Asch

#6. Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. To demonstrate integrity, a person must have the courage to consistently adhere to a strong ethical code, even in difficult situations.

Scott K. Edinger

#8. The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

Roger Ebert

#9. Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret - regret is useless.

Daniel Smith

#10. All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Max Born

#11. A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

Harry Truman

#12. The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in order to live, and there is no moral or ethical code that dictates that we should refrain from eating and allow ourselves to die for some higher purpose.

Sharon Gannon

#13. As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

Patrick Carney

#14. No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

Matthew Desmond

#15. Netiquette: The social code of network communication. Internet code of conduct based on the Golden Rule. Ethical philosophy of common rules.

David Chiles

#16. All those years, what I did for them ... And they didn't try to stop you from taking me. There it was, the giant pain that cracked me in two if I thought about it too long.

Sarah J. Maas

#17. Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.

Frederick Dodson

#18. It was my bad luck (considering Lee's moral code was a bit sketchy) that I fell into Liam Nightingale's Ethical Rule Book at Rule Number Two (with Rule Number One being "Thou shalt not nail your brother's girlfriend"), I was "Thou shalt not nail your little sister's best friend.

Kristen Ashley

#19. She glanced left and right, all wide-eyed and innocent. Innocent as a streetwalker.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#20. I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't.

Dick Van Dyke

#21. Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

Jerry Yang

#22. The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

Chilon Of Sparta

#23. When you etch your moral code in stone, you have no room for editing. You leave open the possibility that, as our ethical views evolve, your code becomes less relevant. You could find yourself with four of ten divine moral laws describing how to treat God and zero that prohibit rape or slavery.

David G. McAfee

#24. Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical failings honestly according to a secular code of right and wrong.

Deborah Feldman

#25. Once a champion, always a champion.

Ferdinand Marcos

#26. You are known by the thoughts you seed.

Vikrmn

#27. Men a simple life form. Where women go wrong is forgetting that.

Jack Dancer

#28. I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' ... The twenty-five percent is for error.

Linus Pauling

#29. There's nothing wrong with saying, "I want to have more," "I want to be more," "I did this for money."

Suze Orman