Ethical Quotes

528 Ethical quotes by 398 unique authors

When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in… — Price Pritchett
But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease.… — Price Pritchett
The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter. — John F. Kennedy
Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this is so. .… — M. Scott Peck
My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was… — Thomas Huxley
The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past. — Corliss Lamont
The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception.… — Pope Francis
But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework of ethical purpose… — John W. Gardner
In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to… — Edward Bernays
Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment. — Price Pritchett
The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right… — Pope John Paul II
A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and… — George Bernard Shaw
Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar. — H. L. Mencken
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask. — C.S. Lewis
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The failure of market catallactics in no way denies the following truth: given sufficient knowledge the optimal decisions can always be found by scanning over… — Paul Samuelson
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression… — Peter Singer
I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a different person, but… — Cheryl Strayed
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up… — John Hoyt
Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done… — Christopher Hitchens

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