Ethics Quotes

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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. — Will Rogers
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. — Eleanor Roosevelt
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life, there can be a… — Axl Rose
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes… — Salman Rushdie
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. — John Ruskin
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. — John Ruskin
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. — Bertrand Russell
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. — Jonathan Sacks
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values… — Jonathan Sacks
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. — Anwar Sadat
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists. — Jerry Saltz
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned… — Carl Sandburg
The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels… — Rick Santorum
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Compassion is the basis of morality. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not… — Albert Schweitzer
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and… — Albert Schweitzer

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