Ethics Quotes - Page 18

They don't produce anything. All they do is guide you through the labyrinth of the legal system that they created - and they keep changing it just in case you start to catch on.

The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.

'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it vehicle and base, take our stand upon it, store it up, throughly set it going.'

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

If you don't pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

I argue for a relational conception of the person as a basis for an environmental ethic that can encourage us to preserve the environment not solely on the basis of satisfying human interests and not solely because we might attribute intrinsic value to the environment, but because the environment is something with which we can potentially enter into constructive relationship, as part of what makes us who we are or transform who we are and open us up to new interests.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

My work ethic is something that I thought would help the team.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics.

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.