Best 1285 quotes in «ethics quotes» category

I would say that Catholics came in and competed with the Protestant work ethic. That is one thing. And they did assimilate into the broader society and a lot of them, especially Irish Catholic did their best to sound like they were English rather than Irish by dropping and the O and the apostrophe.

I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics.

Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

Life is the sum of your choices.

Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.

Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.

Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

Morality is contraband in war.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Morality is not respectability.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.

My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.

Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

My view of ethics and of its priority is connected to my view that we are fundamentally relational beings - both the product of human interactions, as well as committed as part of the expression of our own humanity to various social involvements. I see ethics as having two places in the maintenance of these relational activities - first as providing the basic coinage of our interactions qua humans and second as mediating the various roles we assume as humans.

My work ethic is something that I thought would help the team.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

No man is a man without high morals and ethics.

Nick O'Leary loves to compete. His work ethic is fantastic, and that's what I like about him. He works, and works, and works; and if he has to get better, he gets better.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.