Ethics Quotes - Page 15

Ethics are more important than laws.

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Rise above principle and do what is right.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.

Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.

There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank.

It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.

Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.

Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

Secure in whom we are, rooted in one particular tradition or none at all, we have no reason to fear discovering God in the truth and wisdom of many traditions. Love casts out fear inviting us into happiness for all people and Creation.

Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others.