Ethics Quotes - Page 16

A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

Walt Shaub is a true ethics hero for speaking out.

When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics is objectively constrained. It's not the case that "anything goes".

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

Ethics is inescapable.

The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.

From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

Character is ethics in action.

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

No man is a man without high morals and ethics.

A societies needs determines their ethics