Ethics Quotes · Page 79

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Jose Saramago

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

— John Henry Newman

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

— Joseph Brodsky

“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

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

— Richard Bach

“No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it…

— Steven Pinker

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better…

— Vilém Flusser

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on…

— Bertrand Russell

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a…

— Richard Dawkins

Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and…

— Peter Yarrow

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others,…

— E. O. Wilson

The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might…

— Price Pritchett

Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the…

— Thomas Nagel

“Therefore I permit every man to hold either of these opinions, as he chooses. My one concern at present is to remove…

— Martin Luther

“No life can be free from the storms of adversity unless that family and that home are built on foundations of morality,…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

All mankind lives and each man strives by codes of conduct mutually agreed. Perhaps these codes are good, perhaps theyre bad, its…

— L Ron Hubbard

“Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If…

— Sigmund Freud

They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free…

— J. M. Coetzee

I confess to being something of a philosophical butterfly. The world is full of so many interesting questions, and although my greatest…

— John Kleinig

“Liberals are more likely to see people as victims of circumstance and oppression, and doubt whether individuals can climb without governmental help.…

— Arthur C. Brooks

One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of…

— David B. Haight

“clear conscience is a prerequisite for contemplative practice. You cannot come to the altar when you are not right with your fellow…

— Benjamin Riggs

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in…

— Bell Hooks

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough…

— Danielle Steel

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

If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they…

— Elizabeth Warren

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward…

— Hermann Hesse

The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.

— Michael D. Higgins

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

— Frederick William Faber

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

— Kerry Washington

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

— Margaret E. Knight

I have no soul, no conscience. Floating for one meaning. Three words, I left you with. Three words, I left you with

— Jonny Craig

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you…

— James Clavell

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me…

— Joanne Harris

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

— John Locke

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

— George Bernard Shaw