Character Quote by William James

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

— Dalai Lama

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

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Anonymous

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

— Michael Pollan

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

— Aldo Leopold

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

— Albert Schweitzer

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public…

— John F. Kennedy

An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

— Adam Michnik

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.

— Joseph M. Juran

Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows.

— Michael Josephson

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

— W. Somerset Maugham