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.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.

The best cinema is about ethics.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

The Christian ethic did not raise the worth of female life much above the Jewish: nor did the clinical ethic raise it much above the clerical. This is why most of those identified as witches by male inquisitors were women; and why most of those diagnosed as hysterics by male psychiatrists were also women.

The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years since 1989, the morality of the economy has fully prevailed over the ethics of politics and democracy.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

The market has no morality

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.

The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!

The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

There is no spirituality without ethics

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions.