Best 1285 quotes in «ethics quotes» category

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

I argue for a relational conception of the person as a basis for an environmental ethic that can encourage us to preserve the environment not solely on the basis of satisfying human interests and not solely because we might attribute intrinsic value to the environment, but because the environment is something with which we can potentially enter into constructive relationship, as part of what makes us who we are or transform who we are and open us up to new interests.

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.

I'd rather be right than President.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

I do think that there is a very unclear level of conduct in the Trump administration. That's one reason you're seeing this among so many different secretaries. Again, Trump himself has been bending ethics rules left and right.

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick.

If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.

If you can't trust people, who can you trust?

If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

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.

If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

I looked at people like Lil Wayne. I would go to the studio and I would observe Wayne, and I would literally pray. I would say 'God, give me his work ethic'.

I'm always working on something. Addiction never gets any credit, always talked about as a total liability, and I'll admit that most of its traits aren't positive in our lives. But there's one amazing thing it gave me: a tireless work ethic.

I'm not much into rear window ethics.

I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes.

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.