Ethics Quotes

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You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic. — Zig Ziglar
Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself — Otto Weininger
When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include… — Eugene Odum
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder… — Dylan Moran
A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can… — Ai Weiwei
And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's… — Adriana Trigiani
My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and… — Camille Paglia
Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000… — Jon Stewart
He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. — Khalil Gibran
Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose. — Rabindranath Tagore
Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. — George Bernard Shaw
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power… — Albert Schweitzer
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes. — Arthur Koestler
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that… — Bertrand Russell
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to… — Albert Einstein
This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again. — James A. Baldwin

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