Ethics Quotes · Page 82

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It…

— Emily Post

In every project I do, I'm unwilling to compromise my values and morals and ethics. That's very important to me.

— Kate Gosselin

A guilty conscience will cause someone to hear a truth that applies to them, and get angry simply because 'The shoe fits.'

— Anonymous

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

— Henry Ward Beecher

From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

— Paul Gigot

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be…

— Enid Blyton

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in…

— Janet Morris

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

— Sharad Pawar

Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when…

— H. L. Mencken

It's a difficult thing to describe theology, what it means and how it disciplines thinking. Certainly, theology is the level at which…

— Marilynne Robinson

The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work…

— Irving Janis

...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or…

— Lionel Shriver

Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls.…

— Matthew Underwood

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into…

— Ezra Stiles

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Participant (Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom line: social good plus financial returns. It's too…

— Jeffrey Skoll

One vote, one act or one person can change the course of history. I also thought of the lawyers who daily and…

— Martha Barnett

“Many of us draw lines which we intend never to cross. But life tests our resolve, mercilessly at times, and a foot…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of…

— Albert Schweitzer

For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it,…

— Freeman Dyson

Whenever I ask Siri for directions or a recommendation, I also ask her a trick question. Her answers are usually wacky. She…

— Elizabeth Diller

People ask, 'Is the science going to run ahead of the ethics?' I don't think that's always the problem. I think it's…

— Arthur Caplan

“Finding a new ethics or esthetics, as Dr. Douglass asks, will not put us in a state of grace. Existence is not…

— Paul Goodman

“If you balk at the idea that dogs could be bred like pigs, I’m sorry to disabuse you. Dogs and pigs alike…

— Jessica Pierce

“Anyone shall take law in their hands, but not a judge and I call it as professional ethics.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

The problem is that every time the ethics commissioner proves Trudeau has broken the rules, he just shrugs and moves on.

— Leslyn Lewis

“The testimony of a clear conscience before God is the priceless and unassailable bulwark of the soul.”

— Philip Edgcumbe Hughes

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

— Edward T. Hall

I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad…

— Marcus Giles

Your heart remembers the good times. Your mind remembers the bad, it's your conscience that makes the difference.

— Anonymous

“[The prince] dare not let ethics keep him from doing whatever evil must be done to preserve himself and the state.”

— Jacques Barzun

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

— Dietrich von Hildebrand

The death of one on the conscience of an other can be more than one can bear.

— Mark Hook

FEAR only one person that is GOD. LISTEN to only one voice that is your CONSCIENCE

— Anonymous

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

— Charles Spurgeon

“Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity replete with courage, conscience and compassion.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you…

— Michel de Montaigne

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

— Bill Drayton

“The eye of your mind—your intelligence; the eye of your heart—your conscience; and the eye of your soul—your instinct.”

— Melissa McPhail