Ethics Quotes

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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their… — Charles Caleb Colton
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible. — William Butler Yeats
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. — Joseph Wood Krutch
An improper mind is a perpetual feast. — Logan Pearsall Smith
We are at the very point in time when a 400-year old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting… — Dee Hock
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life… — Leonard Sweet
Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to… — Sigurd F. Olson
Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course. — Adrian Cadbury
Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They must constantly demonstrate… — William J. Brennan
Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at… — Luci Swindoll
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can… — David Shi
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. — Leo Tolstoy
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. — Plautus
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. — Henry David Thoreau
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. — Henry David Thoreau
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's… — Robert Frost
In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a… — Albert Schweitzer

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