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

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

The market has no morality

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

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

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!

[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.

There is no spirituality without ethics

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

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

... thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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