Ethics Quotes

• To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Today
  • Responsibility
  • Ethics

• I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Work
  • Look

• The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

  

  Corliss Lamont
  • Ethics

• There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Process
  • Ethics
  • Delay

• Peace in the world depends on peace in the hearts of individuals; this depends on each of us practising ethics by disciplining our negative thoughts and emotions, and developing basic spiritual qualities.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Heart
  • Peace

• It has never been in my power to study anything, - mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• 'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Community
  • Ethics

• The World and Life are one. Physiological life is of course not 'Life'. And neither is psychological life. Life is the world. Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic. Ethics and Aesthetics are one.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Life
  • World
  • Logic

• As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

  

  Jo Ann Davis
  • Ethics

• My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • Life
  • Ethics

• I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Dog
  • Ethics

• [T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions

  

  H. Verlan Andersen
  • True
  • Nature
  • Political

• I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

  

  John Cena
  • World
  • Military
  • Discipline

• Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Art
  • Ethics

• In 2003, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a year later, a national ethics committee in France, said that face transplantation would be going too far. The risk of complication would far outweigh the benefits.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • College
  • Risk
  • Ethics

• According to government ethics rules ... it is permissible for a retired (Fed) governor to speak in public about the economy so long as he or she does not divulge confidential information. I have no indication that he has violated that rule.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • She
  • Government

• I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Crazy
  • Ethics

• Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics and that there are no easy shortcuts to success. Their companies need ethics carefully sewn into their fabric.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • Easy
  • Realizing
  • Compromise

• Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Ethics
  • Self-restraint
  • Keystones

• 'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.

  

  Jonathan Maberry
  • World
  • Real
  • Science

• I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Ethics

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