Top 25 Ethics Quotes of 432 - Page 8

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Motivational, Work Ethic, Ethics

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

William Butler Yeats

Doe, Ethics, Cry

William Butler Yeats (2017). “The Cutting of an Agate”, p.73, BoD – Books on Demand

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

Theodor Adorno

Principles, Firsts, Ethics

Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.50, Verso

To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

Tariq Ramadan

Ethics, Liberation, Precise

Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.

Ron Willingham

Technique, Ethics, Strategy

Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.9, Crown Business

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, Bikers, Ethics And Morals

"The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson".

Duty is what one expects from others.

Oscar Wilde

Responsibility, Ethics, Duty

Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.127, Oxford Paperbacks

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Max Weber

Clubs, Ethics, Cult

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

Matthieu Ricard

Suffering, Our Actions, Ethics

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

Martin Buber

Ethics, Moral, Currents

Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.89, eBookIt.com

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

Mark Twain

Men, Patriotism, Ethics

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.350, Courier Corporation

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Mark Hopkins

Superstitions, Ethics, Morality

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Leon Kass

Thinking, Way, Ethics

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

Taste, Ethics, Morality

The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 2 (1866)

Great people have great values and great ethics.

Jeffrey Gitomer

People, Ethics, Great Value

Twitter post from Mar 13, 2016

Morality is not respectability.

George Bernard Shaw

Ethics, Morality, Morality And Ethics

We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

Ernst Troeltsch

History, Judging, Ethics

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Edith Sitwell

Integrity, Ethics, Be Good

I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.

Charlie Munger

Thinking, Proud, Ethics

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

Bertrand Russell

Ethics, Morality

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Benjamin Carson

Technology, Significant Things, Ethics