Action Quote by Adam Michnik

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

— Dalai Lama

“Ethical actions can often entail short-term pain, but will always result in long-term gains. By contrast, unethical actions frequently have short-term gains, which make…

— Kashonia Carnegie PhD

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

— Alain Badiou

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

— Dale Jamieson

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

— Jorge Paulo Lemann

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

— William James

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

— Aldo Leopold

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

— John Kleinig

Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.

— Jeb Bradley

Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.

— Baron Moulton John Fletcher Moulton

Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.

— Bob Beckel

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

— Darby Conley