Ethics Quotes - Page 17

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.

The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

A lot of fishermen are telling us they like things the way they are. They aren't pushing for the change. It's part of the conservation ethic that coastal fishermen have developed.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.

As a matter of ethics - our broader social life needs to be constrained by law and other devices - resolving at the societal level matters that should not be left for individual ethical negotiation. What is important - in the end - is that we are enabled to flourish in ways that acknowledge our dignity.

My view of ethics and of its priority is connected to my view that we are fundamentally relational beings - both the product of human interactions, as well as committed as part of the expression of our own humanity to various social involvements. I see ethics as having two places in the maintenance of these relational activities - first as providing the basic coinage of our interactions qua humans and second as mediating the various roles we assume as humans.

Ethics is for people with full bellies.

If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

I, like many people, had some sort of preconception about Madonna. One of the preconceptions was that she had the extraordinary work ethic, which turned out to be absolutely true.

Nick O'Leary loves to compete. His work ethic is fantastic, and that's what I like about him. He works, and works, and works; and if he has to get better, he gets better.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.