Ethics Quotes · Page 66

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to…

— Andy Wilkinson

“Is it better to be a bad man and accomplish great things, or be a great man and accomplish nothing?”

— Vincent B. Davis II

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will…

— Immanuel Kant

“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. -Friedrich Nietzsche”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

— John Milton

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

— Anonymous

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no…

— Benjamin Carson

I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft.…

— Denis Leary

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and…

— David E. Kelley

“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute,…

— Richard M. Rorty

There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save…

— Sebastian Junger

“... a good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect…

— Henry Fielding

The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing…

— Bill Moyers

“Integrity is more than truth and honesty; integrity is an unshackled mind, a happy heart, and a light spirit. Integrity is inner…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the…

— Will Durant

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the…

— Fulton J. Sheen

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no…

— Mark Twain

“A person employed in a workshop, in a university or in a commercial business would not be acting in accordance with justice…

— Francis Fernandez

Look at all of the great strengths of America: entrepreneurialship, work ethic, natural resources, a democracy, a transparency, a willingness to be…

— Michael Bloomberg

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our…

— Mark Twain

You can understand why the original framers of judicial ethics thought it would be undignified and would call into question the legitimacy…

— Deborah Rhode

The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is…

— Simon Critchley

Our Heart, Conscience and Soul is the same thing, just different names we use to call them !!

— Glen Rambharack

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

— Wayne Dyer

Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.

— William Shakespeare

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

— Samuel Johnson

“Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.”

— Denis Waitley

I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

— Moshe Safdie

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and…

— Dalai Lama

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.

— J. C. Ryle

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell…

— Jerry West

“Passion against Reason, Reason against Faith, Faith against the Devil, and my Conscience against all.”

— Thomas Browne

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

— Herbert Spencer

The pillow,holds the rich,poor,soldier,and prince heads but who sleeps deeply is the person with a clear conscience.

— SunShine

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

— Friedrich Nietzsche