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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'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 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'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'm not much into rear window ethics.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

In later years, when I started working in police ethics, I was professionally drawn back to the topic but as well was better able to see two sides to loyalty - its importance for certain central human relations such as friendships, but also its corruptibility in the sense that loyalty could be invoked against other moral constraints: it sometimes function as something of a moral Trojan horse, undermining other moral considerations.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

Integrity needs no rules.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.

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.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

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.

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

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

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 I have a really good work ethic.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good 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 ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

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

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

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.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

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

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

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