Ethical Quotes

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did.

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

I consider your conduct unethical and lousy.

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.