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Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Sudan replaced the U.S. on the U.N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest in upholding the stated mission of the panel. It's just like the Senate Ethics Committee.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

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

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.

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

The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

The best cinema is about ethics.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

The Christian ethic did not raise the worth of female life much above the Jewish: nor did the clinical ethic raise it much above the clerical. This is why most of those identified as witches by male inquisitors were women; and why most of those diagnosed as hysterics by male psychiatrists were also women.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

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.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

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.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.

The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.

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

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.

The market has no morality

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

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

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!

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.

The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.