Ethics Quotes - Page 6

You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.

Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

The only way to truly be protected at all times is to claim your personal power with the highest code of ethics and responsibility. If you are centered in this type of power, the power of the universe supports you, and no one and nothing can defeat you.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.

Work ethic = dreams! That to me is that no one gets a free ride. You have to work for it and it doesn't get handed to you.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

Our distrust is very expensive.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.