Quotes with ethics

  • The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
  • In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
  • 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.
  • Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
  • History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
  • Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
  • It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
  • The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
  • We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.
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  • B. R. Ambedkar 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.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Bob Riley According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ayn Rand Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Albert Claude For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Grub first, then ethics.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Albert Schweitzer I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Albert Einstein I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Barney Frank If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Richard A. Nelson If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed.
    Richard A. Nelson
     
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  • Carol P. Christ In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • George Orwell In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ajay Devgan In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Sir John Harvey It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
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