Ethics Quotes - Page 9

The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

The market has no morality

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.