Ethics Quotes

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The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce… — Malcolm Gladwell
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged… — Muriel Barbery
The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is â€˜doingâ€™ his… — C.S. Lewis
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.… — C.S. Lewis
That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. — Aldo Leopold
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that… — Albert Camus
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live… — Anais Nin
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be… — Albert Einstein
I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow… — Margaret Atwood
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right… — H. L. Mencken
â€¦the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others.… — Yukio Mishima
I never thought I'd have to give you-a former Sunday School teacher-a lecture on ethics." "Former Sunday School teachers don't go around without their underwear."… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a super-hero." "Not yet,"… — Richelle Mead
Ethics and aesthetics are one. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for… — Michel de Montaigne
Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like… — Jodi Picoult
Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics. — Libba Bray
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics classâ€”or worse, some kind of self-help… — Francine Prose
Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of… — Richard Dawkins
Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false picture and is… — Marc Bekoff

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