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A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior. -- Vinoba Bhave
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior. -- Derek Bok
Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption. -- Hillary Clinton
Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain. -- Robert K. Greenleaf
No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business. -- John F. Kennedy
But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior. -- Charlie Chaplin
If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members -- Francis Fukuyama
Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty is integral to ethical behavior, and trustworthiness is essential for good, lasting relationships. -- Buck Rodgers
Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and ethical behavior." They often formulate necessities as objectives; for example, "to achieve sufficient profit." This is like a person saying his mission is to breathe sufficiently. -- Russell L. Ackoff
A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it. -- Sam Harris
We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our conscience in his embodiment of the Old Code ethical behavior and morality. At the same time, he's our unconscious, the place from which our dreams arise. I just spoke my lines to the dragon within me. -- Dennis Quaid
Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive. -- Daniel H. Pink
Goals may cause systematic problems for organizations due to narrowed focus, unethical behavior, increased risk taking, decreased cooperation, and decreased intrinsic motivation. Use care when applying goals in your organization. -- Daniel H. Pink
The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth. -- bell hooks
Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is meant to evolve, isn't it~? -- Joy Williams
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards. -- Ted Koppel
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal. -- Aldo Leopold
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America? -- Zig Ziglar
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. -- Margaret Mead
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. -- John Dos Passos
When people buy, rescue, or otherwise acquire a dog from unscrupulous breeders or amateur rescue groups, they are making a decision with ethical consequences. They have a profound responsibility to consider their actions; to gauge the dog's behavior, to train it thoroughly and rigorously, to protect other humans and dogs from harm. -- Jon Katz
Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior -- Manmohan Singh
Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes ourbeliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one. -- Greta Christina
Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. -- John Dos Passos
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. -- Earl Warren

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