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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.

If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

If you can't trust people, who can you trust?

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

I looked at people like Lil Wayne. I would go to the studio and I would observe Wayne, and I would literally pray. I would say 'God, give me his work ethic'.

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 have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

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 knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

I'm not much into rear window ethics.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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 met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Integrity needs no rules.

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.

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

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

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.