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Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. -- Potter Stewart
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. -- Immanuel Kant
Ethics are more important than laws. -- Wynton Marsalis
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. -- Jane Addams
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. -- Albert Schweitzer
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. -- Kate Atkinson
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities. -- John Berger
Ethics is inescapable. -- Peter Singer
Ethics change with technology. -- Larry Niven
Ethics and aesthetics are one. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable. -- John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton
Ethics is the new competitive environment -- Peter Robinson
Ethics to me is very important. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
Ethics and Science need to shake hands. -- Richard Clarke Cabot
Ethics is for people with full bellies. -- John Kessel
Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers -- Kiran Bedi
That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973. -- Jon Stewart
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. -- Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle. -- Darby Conley
Ethics in government has always been important to me. -- Chris Bell
Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality. -- Lajos Kossuth
Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting. -- Wallace Stevens
Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours. -- Dalai Lama
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. -- Albert Schweitzer
Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work. -- Achille Silvestrini
Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins. -- Dale Jamieson
Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows. -- Michael Josephson
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. -- D. H. Lawrence
Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience. -- Winston Churchill
Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing. -- Corinne Maier
You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline. -- Price Pritchett
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. -- Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be. -- Michael Josephson
Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be. -- Robert Winston
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. -- Bertrand Russell
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do -- Potter Stewart
Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt. -- Peter Singer
Ethics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note. -- Wynton Marsalis
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives. -- Ayn Rand
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. -- Edward F. Hennessey
Ethics and Equity are at the core of debate of climate change. Debate has to move from Climate Change to Climate Justice. -- Narendra Modi
Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I'm not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line. -- S.C. Stephens
Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement -- Michael Josephson
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous. -- Peter Kreeft
Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards. -- Jeb Bradley
Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values. -- John Ziman
what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics. -- Thomas Jefferson
Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need. -- Walter Cronkite
There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing. -- Aleister Crowley
I think Jason Chaffetz was correct to call for an investigation into the Government Ethics Department in the government for the positions that they've taken in this campaign. -- Reince Priebus
The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics. -- Richard Curtis
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change. -- Oscar Wilde
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well. -- Charles Van Doren
Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do -- Michael Josephson
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
[Donald Trump] has done a financial disclosure, which has gone through the Office of Government Ethics. I think he's done that twice. That is his duty under the law. I hear no complaints about that. -- Jason Chaffetz
Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is, beings who need our help. Buddhism, not wrongly, extends this to 'all sentient beings'. -- George Pattison
I understand the chairman of the Senate Ethics comittee is going to examine the check-bouncing scandal with a microscope. ...makes sense... If you're going to look at ethics in Congress, a microscope is what you need. -- Jay Leno
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
Sudan replaced the U.S. on the U.N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest in upholding the stated mission of the panel. It's just like the Senate Ethics Committee. -- Argus Hamilton
Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year. -- Laura Miller
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct. -- Carl Sandburg
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. -- Albert Einstein
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. -- Earl Warren
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. -- Paracelsus
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. -- Albert Camus
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. -- Confucius
I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. -- Spencer Johnson
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. -- Noam Chomsky
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. -- Albert Einstein
I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics. -- Sharad Pawar
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. -- Abraham Lincoln
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. -- Mark Twain
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. -- Charles Baudelaire
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people. -- Bill Moyers
People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules. -- Wayne Dyer
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work! -- Robin Williams
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -- Elie Wiesel
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. -- Albert Schweitzer
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
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -- Helen Keller
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. -- Thomas A. Edison
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. -- Henry David Thoreau
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. -- George Washington
I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics. -- John Cena
We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts. -- Pema Chodron
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. -- Albert Schweitzer
Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel. -- Antoine Fuqua
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
What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind. -- Ratan Tata
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
I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character. -- Corin Nemec
Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. -- Hunter S. Thompson
If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education. -- Dalai Lama
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places. -- Peter Singer
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. -- Albert Einstein
To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people. -- Ben Carson
I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay. -- Sarah Palin
The law in Athens is true in Rome -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The devil is and always has been a gentleman -- Diane LaVey
All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice. -- Moncure D. Conway
I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win. -- Mike Candrea
for the mere act of thinking a course expedient, when it is morally wrong, is demoralizing -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty. -- Howard Cosell
I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can. -- James Mercer
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching -- Warren E. Burger
The difference between moral dilemmas and ethical ones, philosophers say, is that in moral issues the choice is between right and wrong. In ethics, the choice is between two rights -- Moliere
It appears to me that in Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause: namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisel -- George Moore
There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others, uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more -- Robert Nozick
Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else's expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise -- Friedrich August Hayek
Grub first, then ethics. -- Bertolt Brecht
Work ethics eliminates fear. -- Michael Jordan
Honest people have no ethics -- Sam DeCavalcante

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