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

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

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

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

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.

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

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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".

Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

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

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.

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

Change can only come from local citizens and politicians - it cannot be imposed by well-meaning foreigners - not least because a society like Afghanistan or Iraq is suspicious of outsiders and often resistant to change. I am not going to get drawn into the ethics of intervening in other countries. My concern is the practical question. Can you actually achieve change in this way? My guess is we can stop wars sometimes as in the Balkans and topple regimes - but that the other stuff - such as corruption is not within our power to effect and alter.

Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.

Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics and that there are no easy shortcuts to success. Their companies need ethics carefully sewn into their fabric.

Do not be a magician - be magic!

Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.

Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

Duty is what one expects from others.