Ethics Quotes
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To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.
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Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
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Most people don't have any association in their minds with what they do and with ethics. They think they somehow moved past the questions of morality or values or ethics, and that's something that I've never imagined to be true.
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There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
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We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.
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The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.
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There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
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I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.
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The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.
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I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.
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As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life is ethical, not mystical. The mystery has gone and society is disintegrating as a result.
