Abstract Quote by John Ziman

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

— Ayn Rand

A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be firm rules…

— Philip Kitcher

“Ethics is not a mystic fantasy--nor a social convention--nor a dispensable, subjective luxury...Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival--not by the grace of…

— Ayn Rand

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

— Potter Stewart

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do.

— Max Allan Collins

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

— Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

— Anonymous

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

— Dale Jamieson

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

— Valdemar W Setzer

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

— Lajos Kossuth

“Ethics is not a description of what people do; it's a prescription for what we all should do.”

— Michael Josephson

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

— Albert Schweitzer