Top 100 The Ethics Quotes
#1. Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.
Nathaniel Branden
#2. The ethics of peace is liberal; it's not conservative based.
Henry Johnson Jr
#3. The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.
Roger Mudd
#4. We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.
Barack Obama
#5. Jem's face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket. I did likewise with no qualms.
Harper Lee
#6. We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.
Glen Cook
#7. I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.
Chris Bell
#8. Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
Price Pritchett
#9. It is as if a Mohammedan, while recognizing the divine mission of the Arab prophet, were to write for his son a treatise on the ethics of the New Testament as better adapted than the moral system of the Koran for the training and confirming of a young man in the practice of virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#10. The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
Adam Michnik
#11. My understanding of environmentalism, of the things that radicalize people, of the ethics and effectiveness of different kinds of social protest have definitely become more nuanced and more informed, but they aren't much clearer.
Marshall Curry
#12. What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
Barney Frank
#13. Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
Barney Frank
#15. In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.
Paul Haggis
#16. The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet?
Price Pritchett
#17. You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.
Ravi Zacharias
#18. We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and the ethics!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. 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
#20. For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
Paul Ricoeur
#21. men sat around discussing the ethics of eating and farming, while women did all the work.23
Aaron Bobrow-Strain
#22. One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue.
Saul Alinsky
#23. We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards
the ethics of excellence.
Price Pritchett
#24. Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
Fidel Castro
#25. The ethics of eating people are blurry at best in the fog of my undead amnesia, but I expect more for such a high price. What I want are the moments I will never have. The warm ones. The living ones.
Isaac Marion
#26. Because like all whores 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
#27. The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.
Bertrand Russell
#28. The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.
Price Pritchett
#29. One is too precious about the past, the other too hungry for the future. One arm being dragged into the past by the ethics of historic preservation, the other being yanked towards a hopeful (bigger, brighter, better) future.
Winy Maas
#30. The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The former embraces absolute power, provided it is used to protect and promote the patient's mental health. The latter rejects absolute power, regardless of its aim or use.
Thomas Szasz
#32. For at this juncture, the West has cut itself off from its own Jewish and Christian roots - the faith, the ideas, the ethics and the way of life that made it the West. It now stands deeply divided, uncertain of its post-Christian identity, and with its dominance waning in the global era.
Os Guinness
#33. Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.
Price Pritchett
#34. The librarian thought the problem was just that the right books weren't breeding with each other and proposed a forced mating program. The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.
Lev Grossman
#35. Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.
Dan Brown
#36. It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
Christopher Hampton
#37. The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.
Malcolm Gladwell
#38. No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.
Fisher Ames
#39. The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.
Ron Wyden
#40. The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
Saul Alinsky
#41. Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting.
Michael Ignatieff
#42. The Beat spokesman, surprisingly, seemed to be satisfied with the ethics that we have inherited.
Paul Goodman
#43. I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.
Roger Spottiswoode
#44. Young George spent more money on one day of his Inauguration Ceremonies than Richard Nixon did on his whole Campaign in 1972 - and Nixon was crucified as a Criminal Spendthrift with the ethics of a snake.
Hunter S. Thompson
#45. We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?
Ellen Goodman
#46. If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going.
Wayne McGregor
#47. There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?
Alain Badiou
#48. But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.
Price Pritchett
#49. The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
Stanley Hauerwas
#50. Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
Bill Moyers
#51. A civilization has the ethics it can afford
Larry Niven
#52. I don't know the ethics, but some times sex is at highest priority in a relationship.
Nikhil Yadav
#53. Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.
George W. Bush
#54. The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science.
Aristotle.
#55. I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#56. Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.
Abdal Hakim Murad
#57. There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
Alain Badiou
#58. 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
#59. All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.
Derrick Bell
#60. He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
Michel De Montaigne
#61. The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.
Aruna Roy
#62. Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I'm not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.
S.C. Stephens
#63. Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.
Peter Remnant
#65. The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.
Luke Myer
#66. Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
Max Lerner
#67. We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
Pythagoras
#68. I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both
Thomas Jefferson
#69. I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
Peter Singer
#70. Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
Bill Drayton
#71. Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets.
Byrd Baggett
#72. For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
Albert Claude
#73. Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#74. The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.
Bill Nye
#75. 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
#76. No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
A.J. Ayer
#77. Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.
Laura Miller
#78. The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
Alain Badiou
#79. If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.
Duff Goldman
#80. 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
#81. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process; a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual.
Kenan Malik
#82. A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be firm rules that could always be relied on. Or they might be ideals that could often be followed without thinking but that sometimes conflicted with one another.
Philip Kitcher
#83. My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed in fairness and ethics and living up to the commitments you make to others. He ultimately became a judge, and he would talk to me over and over about how important it is to be fair.
John W. Rogers Jr.
#84. Is it a thorny question of ethics? Or is it the sort of ethical question where the right choice is easy, but the unethical answer is too tempting?
Courtney Milan
#85. 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
#86. If [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without God?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#87. Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
Dalai Lama XIV
#88. One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with Christian ethics. But pastorally and existentially, I know that this is not the case, and never has been.
Richard John Neuhaus
#89. Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.
Mollie Marti
#90. Luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
Umberto Eco
#91. I would never stay in office against the will of the people. My ethics and patriotism do not allow me to do so.
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi
#92. Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#93. 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
#94. I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.
Taylor Swift
#95. The borders he respected were the borders of dreams, the misty borders of love and indifference, the borders of courage and fear, the golden borders of ethics.
Roberto Bolano
#96. It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.
Aristotle.
#97. Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.
Marcus Aurelius
#98. He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.
Henry David Thoreau
#99. The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one's fingers.
Arthur Koestler
#100. Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.
Michael J. Marx
