Ethics Quotes - Page 5

The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years since 1989, the morality of the economy has fully prevailed over the ethics of politics and democracy.

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

Work ethics eliminates fear.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.