Ethics Quotes · Page 83

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

— James Madison

“If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism.”

— Quentin R. Bufogle

Through art, man has long transcended his flight, his conscience. Through war, he cancelled them.

— Mariana Fulger

When you treat everyone on the sets with respect, it keeps the workspace free of tension. Your conscience is clear, and that…

— Anushka Shetty

“Nothing like an endangered pocketbook to help a businessman find his conscience.”

— Susan Carol McCarthy

My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

— Syd

I grew up in Illinois, went out east to school, and went back to Illinois to teach... Illinois is a great state…

— Richard Painter

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all…

— Max Weber

Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are…

— Martha Stout

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come…

— Christine Pelosi

To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it,…

— Martin Luther

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the…

— Andy Grundberg

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never…

— Tiger Woods

We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously…

— Peter Singer

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is…

— David O. McKay

Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this…

— Emile Durkheim

Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The…

— Pope Benedict XVI

A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not…

— Michel Foucault

The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total.…

— Steven Levy

“The commitment to enlarged thought is morally and politically significant in that it fosters the ‘ability to think without rules’, to cultivate…

— Patrick Hayden

Its a sign of troubled times when the concept of pressure becomes an acceptable excuse for ethical shortcuts and moral shortcomings. Pressures…

— Michael Josephson

State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in…

— Henry Giroux

The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is…

— Anonymous

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

— Hosea Ballou

“Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through.”

— Tarun Sharma

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

— Euripides

“If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all…

— Stephen McAndrew

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

— Simon Travaglia

I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I…

— Carla Gugino

“All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.”

— Mahavira

Every time you feel like doing the wrong thing but choose to do the right thing, you are growing!

— Joyce Meyer

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm…

— Shirley MacLaine

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

— Otto Weininger

“Without ethics, a human race falls to inhumanity. Ethics determines your real value in this world and the hereafter.”

— Nazim Ambalath

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

— Elvis Costello

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

— Stanley Milgram

All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

— Eva LaRue

In the heart of every man lurks a sense of inner wrongness and a conscience that will not be silenced.

— John Hagee