Top 25 Ethics Quotes of 432 - Page 14

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Believe, Ethics, Billions

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

Lupe Fiasco

Running, Men, Ethics

"The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

A civilization has the ethics it can afford

Larry Niven

Civilization, Ethics

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

Ethics, Morality, Endeavor

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1908). “The New York idea: a comedy in four acts”

Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

Jon Runyan

Blessed, Work Ethic, Ethics

Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.

John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton

Ethics, Obedience

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

Joanne Harris

Mother, Want Something, Ethics

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

Janeane Garofalo

Real, Work Ethic, Ethics

Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. June 7, 2007.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

Ellen Glasgow

Redemption, Ethics, Economy

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

David Hume

Selfish, Voice, Ethics

David Hume (1768). “An enquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An enquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.296

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

Dalai Lama

Desire, Ethics, Indispensable

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Facts, World, Ethics

Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.35, Penguin UK

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.

Angela Sidney

Stories, Ethics, Moral

One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Honesty, World, Ethics

"Chinese newspaper in eye of censorship storm back on sale" by Jaime A. FlorCruz, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2013.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

Aldous Huxley

Men, Vitality, Ethics

Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”