Ethics Quotes

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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the… — Karen Hughes
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments… — Carol P. Christ
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something… — Frances Wright
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. — Jeremy Bentham
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics;… — Jorge Luis Borges
The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone. — Michael D. Higgins
I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot… — Jonathan Safran Foer
IF the parent is a drunkard, a gambler and a cheat, no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Never let a sense of what is right blind you to what is true. — Scott Allen
A person educated in mind and not in morals is a menace to society — Unknown Author
It's bad ethics and terrible economics. Take my money and make America well. — Bill Clinton
It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare — Mark Twain
The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of… — Blaise Pascal
All mankind lives and each man strives by codes of conduct mutually agreed. Perhaps these codes are good, perhaps theyre bad, its only evident theyre… — L. Ron Hubbard
An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do — Bertrand Russell
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way… — Susan Sontag
Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled… — Friedrich August Hayek
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within — Mahatma Gandhi
The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root,… — Albert Schweitzer

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