Ethics Quotes

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In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to sell any remaining… — Bill Frist
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. — John Donne
Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics… — Meg Greenfield
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have… — Bertrand Russell
Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks… — Henry Beston
I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street… — Horace Greeley
Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same… — Ingmar Bergman
There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and… — Dorothy L. Sayers
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class. — Mordecai Richler
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion! — Daniel Dennett
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. — A.J. Ayer
Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of… — Kevin Costner
I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has… — Tom DeLay
The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics. — Asger Jorn
What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own… — George F. R. Ellis
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that… — John Scott
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the… — Richard Stallman

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