Ethics Quotes - Page 24

• What we might consider is how we are good rather than how good we are.

  Merrit Malloy

  Might

  merrit malloy (2013). “THE COST OF LIVING: The New Work of Merrit Malloy”, p.55, iUniverse

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• The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.

  Raymond Geuss

  Philosophy, Names, Doe

  Raymond Geuss (2009). “Outside Ethics”, p.20, Princeton University Press

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• We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.

  Filipp Golikov

  Military, Party, Past

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• I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

  Masiela Lusha

  Family, Leadership, Education

  Tolucan Times, October 27, 2010.

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• I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

  James Mercer

  Beautiful, Art

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would almost consider myself a canonical child of Generation X... because I think there is an ethic and aesthetic that goes along with that generation, it may have something to do with the fact that "Never Mind the Bollocks" was released when we were 16-years-old and that was really the album that crystalized a generation.

  Mark Pesce

  Children, Thinking, Years

  "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". Interview with Gregory Pleshaw, hyperreal.org.

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• The more big business talks about something, the less of it there is. For example, it 'values' jobs just at the moment when they disappear; it revels in 'autonomy' when in fact you have to fill out forms in triplicate for the slightest trifle and ask the advice of six people to make insignificant decisions; it harps on 'ethics' while believing in absolutely nothing.

  Corinne Maier

  Jobs, Business, Believe

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.9, Vintage

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• Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it.

  Corinne Maier

  Culture, Bits

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.33, Vintage

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• Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.

  Corinne Maier

  Clean, Used, Conscience

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.33, Vintage

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• At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Character, Humility

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• All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

  Aldo Leopold

  Team, Men, Land

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic", p. 203-204, 1949.

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• Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as it is - as become foreign to the public. So here goes: When government sports a surplus, this implies that the political pickpockets have stolen more funds than they can possibly dream of spending. The property is not theirs to keep! Conversely, when deficits are reported, this means that the kleptomaniacs have not been able to steal sufficient funds to cover their profligacy.

  Ilana Mercer

  Sports, Dream, Mean

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• If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Happy Life, Cities

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.

  Aristotle

  Exercise, Perfect, Realization

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.380, Simon and Schuster

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• Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

  Adam Michnik

  Different, World, Different Worlds

  Adam Michnik (1998). “Letters from Freedom: Post–Cold War Realities and Perspectives”, p.27, Univ of California Press

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• Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.

  David Henry Hwang

  Religious, Parent, Chinese

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• A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

  Max Weber

  Clubs, Cult, Stock Exchange

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• Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

  Jon Runyan

  Blessed, Work Ethic, Great Things

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• Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and there is also no answer whatsoever. Anything we might say is a priori bound to be nonsense. Nevertheless we do run up against the limits of language. Kierkegaard too saw that there is this running up against something, and he referred to it in a fairly similar way (as running up against paradox). This running up against the limits of language is ethics.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

  Robin Sharma

  Effectiveness, Innovation, Excellence

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• I have learned that the ethics of the so-called markets can be different from what we learn at school. In day-to-day life you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term it always pays off to be ethical.

  Jorge Paulo Lemann

  School, Long, Different

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• Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.

  Joe Greene

  Attitude, Dedication, Favorite Person

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• I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to write most of my books right before the deadline. I'm trying to work on that, but so far, I'm not getting any more organized.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Coffee, Book, Home

  "Romance Unlaced: Interview with Elizabeth Hoyt". Interview With Madeline Hunter, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 10, 2014.

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• The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.

  Bill Nye

  Animal, Meaning Of Life, Way

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime

  Jo Nesbo

  Christian, Revenge, Demand

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