Best 1285 quotes in «ethics quotes» category

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

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

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

Life is the sum of your choices.

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

Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.

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

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

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.

Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .

Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.