Best 1285 quotes in «ethics quotes» category

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

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.

They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

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

To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one

Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

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.

Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.

Universal brotherhood under the fatherhood of God.

We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.

Virtue is its own revenge.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

Walt Shaub is a true ethics hero for speaking out.

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 ethics!

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

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

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.

We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

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.

We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.

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

We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

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