Ethics Matter Quotes

#1. There are people who will tell you that the ends justify the means, right up until they're talking about their own ends. Then, suddenly, morals and ethics matter. Funny thing, that. - Dr. Shannon

Mira Grant

#2. Be the kind of person your parents would be proud to know, even if they weren't related to you.

E.J. Hagadorn

#3. you should never publicly criticize anyone or anything unless it is a matter of morals or ethics. Anything negative you say could at the very least ruin someone's day, or worse, break someone's heart, or simply change someone from being a future ally of yours to someone who will never forget

Timothy Ferriss

#4. Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers.

Kenny Rogers

#5. It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.

Heath L'Estrange

#6. ...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.

G.E. Moore

#7. If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

Martin Freeman

#8. You know this is called self-pity. You don't care.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#9. I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

Marjane Satrapi

#10. We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.

Peter Singer

#11. Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

Simon Conway Morris

#12. One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

John Burroughs

#13. An artist owed a duty to nothing except his own irresponsibility. It was OK for an artist to frolic in the water, no matter how bloody the waves or how high the tide rose. An ethicist had an obligation to drown.

Howard Jacobson

#14. It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.

Anthony Trollope

#15. Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

Tom Robbins

#16. Think of it." Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. "It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the right environment, and let the heart do what it desires. The heart wants to beat.

Stephen Kiernan

#17. The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.

Pope Francis

#18. You lurve the tiger," Zane croned.

"Shut up, Zane".

Abigail Roux

#19. It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in that which exceeds you perseverance. Persevere in the interruption. Seize in your being that which has seized and broken you.

Alain Badiou

#20. You still love her?" he asked curiously.

Carmine nodded. "I think I always will. Regardless of all this bullshit, she'll always be my hummingbird.

J.M. Darhower

#21. I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.

David Douglas Duncan

#22. Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. In the dark, where do shadows go?

Orson Scott Card

#24. Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.

Graeme Le Saux

#25. Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

Lafcadio Hearn

#26. You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.
Humans don't like that.
They view it as a sign of ingratitude.
I never asked anyone to feed me.
That doesn't seem to matter to them.

Patrick Jennings

#27. Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

Jostein Gaarder

#28. The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Albert Schweitzer

#29. Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.

Ingmar Bergman

#30. At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#31. Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

Mo Rocca