Ethics Quotes - Page 10

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

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.

We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

Why are we trying to measure social media like a traditional channel anyway? Social media touches every facet of business and is more an extension of good business ethics.

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

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

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.

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.

Ethics to me is very important.