Ethics Quotes

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Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are… — Laura Miller
If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well,… — Frederick Pollock
I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite… — Jack Scalia
Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics. — Simon Travaglia
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Discontent is the seed of ethics — Friedrich Nietzsche
The devil is and always has been a gentleman. — Diane LaVey
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling. — Unknown Author
The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart — Confucius
To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only… — Albert Einstein
Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process. — Unknown Author
If a man is good in his heart, then he is an ethical member of any group in society. If he is bad in his… — Unknown Author
I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances,… — Thomas Jefferson
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. — Mark Twain
Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity. — Unknown Author
I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will preserve their happiness in a… — John Adams
Every man, at the bottom of his heart, wants to do right. But only he can do right who knows right; only he knows right… — Unknown Author
Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code. — Napoleon Bonaparte
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-night useless, since their chief purpose is… — Moliere

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