Ethics Quotes - Page 2

• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• You don't have to be sick to get better.

  Michael Josephson

  Leadership, Sick, Get Better

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• Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

  Peter Kreeft

  Purpose, Illusion, Virtue

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• I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Compassion, Foundation, Reverence For Life

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• The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

  Albert Einstein

  Goal, Interesting, Joy

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

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• It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Family, Crazy

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• No man is a man without high morals and ethics.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Moral

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• A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Honesty, Integrity

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• My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

  Alva Myrdal

  Philosophy, Life Is, Life Philosophy

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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• Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Men, Law

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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• Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but by his perception of his oneness with each human being. In the practice of mutual aid, which we can re-trace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support- not mutual struggle- has had the leading part.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Struggle, Men, Mutual Support

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution”, p.247, Courier Corporation

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• To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Mean, Greed, Survival

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• It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

  Plautus

  Done, Favour, Morality

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• Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

  Albert Einstein

  Fun, Business, Ethics And Morals

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• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

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• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Animal, Thinking Man

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• 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 integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.

  Kerry Stokes

  Honesty, Business, Block

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• Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.

  Morris Mandel

  Integrity, Character, Names

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• Grub first, then ethics.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Food, Cooking, Firsts

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• No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

  A.J. Ayer

  Morality, Divine, Authority

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• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Witty, Memorial Day

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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  Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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  There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

  Elie Wiesel

  Freedom, Philosophy, Military

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

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• Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

  Leon Blum

  Integrity, Choices, May

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