Ethics Quotes - Page 13

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act toward us, if we were in his circumstances and he in ours; or more generally - What we approve in others, that we ought to practise in like circumstances, what we condemn in others we ought not to do.

Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

There is no spirituality without ethics

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

... thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

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

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business

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

Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.