Ethics Quotes

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You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics. — Massad Ayoob
A lot of fishermen are telling us they like things the way they are. They aren't pushing for the change. It's part of the conservation… — Larry J. McKinney
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. — Matthew Arnold
Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a… — Walter Cronkite
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. — Mark Hopkins
I'd rather be right than President. — Henry Clay
Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is… — John Muir
Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. — Theodore Roosevelt
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. — St. Jerome
The quicker we all realize that we've been taught how to live life by people that were operating on the momentum of an ignorant past… — Joe Rogan
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part… — Jamais Cascio
Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful… — John F. Kennedy
I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I've been… — Hunter S. Thompson
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as… — C.S. Lewis
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they… — Sigmund Freud
What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process. — Barney Frank
A good conscience is a continual Christmas. — Benjamin Franklin
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. — Paulo Freire
If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon. — Thomas Friedman

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