Ethics Quotes - Page 4

It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.

Integrity needs no rules.

I would never stay in office against the will of the people. My ethics and patriotism do not allow me to do so.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.

Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

Balance is always tough with the kind of shows and my work ethic and all of that, but that definitely helps me do what I do in the big picture.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

What is moral is what you feel good after.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.