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You. What is the moral difference, if any, between the soldier and the civilian?" "The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civic virtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

A civilization has the ethics it can afford

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

Activity is not output.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network.

Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

A lot of fishermen are telling us they like things the way they are. They aren't pushing for the change. It's part of the conservation ethic that coastal fishermen have developed.

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.

A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.

A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.

As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of Hippocrates that the professional man do nothing that will harm his client.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

As a matter of ethics - our broader social life needs to be constrained by law and other devices - resolving at the societal level matters that should not be left for individual ethical negotiation. What is important - in the end - is that we are enabled to flourish in ways that acknowledge our dignity.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it is the position that ethical claims have truth values, but their truth conditions consist not in a set of objective facts to which they correspond, but instead in the outcome of some procedure of deliberation resulting in decisions about what to do.

As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.

A star's the work - the work ethic you put into the business, and the people you excite. We only wanted to excite only a few people at that time, which was some o' the emcees that was hot that was in the game.

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics is objectively constrained. It's not the case that "anything goes".

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Balance is always tough with the kind of shows and my work ethic and all of that, but that definitely helps me do what I do in the big picture.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.