Ethics Quotes

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Universal brotherhood under the fatherhood of God.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Ethics is the new competitive environment

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

Ethics change with technology.

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

Life is the sum of your choices.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

Do not be a magician - be magic!

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.