Ethics Quotes

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Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls. — Elbert Hubbard
Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want… — Michael Josephson
Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement — Michael Josephson
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the… — Albert Schweitzer
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to… — Albert Schweitzer
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from… — Albert Schweitzer
Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of… — Jacques Maritain
We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic… — Marian Wright Edelman
Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time… — Dee Hock
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one.… — Henry David Thoreau
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily… — Friedrich August von Hayek
It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and… — Jacques Barzun
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that… — Sigmund Freud
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that… — Bertrand Russell
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics?… — Henri Poincare
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. — George Bernard Shaw
All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of… — Dalai Lama
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's… — Kerry Stokes
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical… — Harry S. Truman

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