Ethics Quotes

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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on… — Peter Singer
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. — Jane Rule
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. — D. H. Lawrence
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight… — Joe Baca
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us… — Antonio Damasio
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. — Arthur Keith
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built. — William H. Masters
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that… — Patrick Henry
Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence… — Thomas Jefferson
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him. — Albert Schweitzer
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Unknown Author
Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed. — Aristotle
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one,… — Aristotle
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which… — Aristotle
It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor… — Aristotle
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral… — Aristotle
Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to… — Aristotle
But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will… — Aristotle
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. — Oscar Wilde

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