Ethics Quotes - Page 7

I think I have a really good work ethic.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.

Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

If you can't trust people, who can you trust?

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue