Best 1285 quotes in «ethics quotes» category

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

I suppose I get a lot of questions about Tiger. But Tiger Woods is a tremendous talent. He plays well. He has a great work ethic. He's probably as talented of a golfer as anyone who's ever played.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.

I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you'll reap in abundance.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

I think I have a really good work ethic.

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

It's just one day at a time. I love multi-tasking and I'm really organized and when you have a certain work ethic, which all the girls have, we all have that same thing going on.

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.

I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

I've always been very hopeful but I also know that as long as you've got a good work ethic, almost anything is achievable and I learned that in the armed forces.

Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.

I was educated by nuns. None of them, of course, did anything resembling the actions of Lydia from The Handmaid's Tale, but they taught me a work ethic, that I had to toe the line, that I had to step up and do my work, and that we would stay until it was done, and that came from a devotion to making you the best person you can be. That's the take I have on Lydia. She knows her actions are firm and sometimes very harsh, but she also looks after them.

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

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

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

Life is the sum of your choices.

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