Best 1285 quotes in «ethics quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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 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 think I have a really good work ethic.

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

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

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

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 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 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.