Ethics Quotes

Work ethics eliminates fear.

— Michael Jordan

Ethics and power are separate.

— Robert Greene

Conscience is wiser than science.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

— Quintilian

Honest people have no ethics

— Sam DeCavalcante

Freedom is a clear conscience.

— Periander

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

— Menander

A satellite has no conscience.

— Edward R. Murrow

Walt Shaub is a true ethics hero for speaking out.

— Reince Priebus

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

— Robert Ardrey

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“Your clear conscience is due to a poor memory.”

— Anonymous

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

— Benigno Aquino, Jr

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

— Albert Schweitzer

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

— Maya Angelou

“For those who set out to clean the dirt of the world, the best broom is their own clean morals, because you…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.

— Peter Morgan

“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.”

— Joseph Brodsky

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

— John Henry Newman

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

— Jose Saramago

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no need of justifying yourself to others, until you can justify yourself to your own conscience.

— Senora Roy

“How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we…

— William Longgood

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a…

— William Shakespeare

As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble…

— Ronald Reagan

“The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know…

— Omar Bradley

You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in…

— Roger Sherman

“I argued against the view that the only obligation we have to strangers is to avoid harming them; but even if we…

— Peter Singer

A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health…

— Aldo Leopold

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God,…

— Archibald Alexander

I have a really, really strong work ethic and I learned that from my dad because my dad was a workaholic but…

— Tori Spelling

Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.…

— Alan Bradley

“It is an adherent condition of human affairs that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others can make it…

— John Stuart Mill

A 2010 report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a non-partisan watchdog group, lists eight staffers to Sen. Shelby that…

— Ron Crumpton

An ethic that emphasizes relationship and community can be concerned with protecting the individual's interests, but always with an eye to trying…

— David Wong

Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens…

— Jeff Schweitzer

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles…

— Susan Sontag

“We hear our legislators proclaim unceasingly their respect for the individual conscience, though it be a religious conscience, and themselves anticlericals. All…

— Antonin Sertillanges