Ethics Quotes · Page 86

Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.

— Isaac Watts

“The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?”

— Diana Gabaldon

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

— Peter Morgan

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

— Dalai Lama

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

— Ovid

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.

— Anonymous

When a man won't listen to his conscience, it's usually because he doesn't want advice from a total stranger.

— Lindsey Stewart

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

— Dante Alighieri

The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to…

— George MacDonald

“1. That he had approved himself to his own conscience, verse 12: “For our own rejoicing is this, the testimony of our…

— Jonathan Edwards

Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to…

— Criss Jami

“When a person denies his conscience for too long, it can become seared. That person becomes susceptible to receiving and accepting all…

— Henry Hon

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular…

— Soren Kierkegaard

You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal.…

— Jacque Fresco

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued…

— Albert Camus

The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a…

— Arthur Koestler

“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for…

— Suzy Kassem

“My view [is] that what morality boils down to is, 'Don’t harm, and do help.' And now the question is, 'Can creatures…

— Shelly Kagan

“By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It…

— Erwin Schrödinger

The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships…

— Peter Singer

It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a…

— George Mason

Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have…

— C. S. Lewis

The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration,…

— Nhat Hanh

“Why give a robot an order to obey orders—why aren't the original orders enough? Why command a robot not to do harm—wouldn't…

— Steven Pinker

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

— Sallie Krawcheck

Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about.

— Nick Denton

Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the…

— George W. Bush

I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.

— Mike Krzyzewski

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to…

— Mike Mills

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

— Andrew Carnegie

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

— Henry David Thoreau

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

— Walter Cronkite

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

— Bertrand Russell

Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit…

— Richard Steele

“Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

— Max Lerner

“The character of God is an unchanging Northstar five which to find our way through a world of moral complexity.”

— Kirby Anderson

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

— Allen W. Wood

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

— Friedrich Nietzsche