Ethics Quotes - Page 11

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

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

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.

The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.

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

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

What we might consider is how we are good rather than how good we are.

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

We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.

Morality is contraband in war.

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.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

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

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.