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Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.

Honest people have no ethics

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

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.

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

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

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

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

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 don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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.

I'd rather be right than President.

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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'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.

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

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.

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

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