Ethics Quotes - Page 12

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

I do think that there is a very unclear level of conduct in the Trump administration. That's one reason you're seeing this among so many different secretaries. Again, Trump himself has been bending ethics rules left and right.

The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.

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

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

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.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

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

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.