Ethics Quotes - Page 2

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Ethics is the new competitive environment

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

Ethics change with technology.

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.

Life is the sum of your choices.

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.