Ethics Quotes - Page 25

• I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Proud, Ends

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• For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.

  Karen Hughes

  Government, Years, President

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• Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I dont know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.

  Justin Welby

  Thinking, Needs, Banking

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• Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Buddhism, Son

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.204, Image

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• I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Understanding, Spheres

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

  Oscar Wilde

  Hate, Abstract, Severity

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.192, Wordsworth Editions

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• Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.

  Ron Conway

  Work Ethic, Ambitious, Tough

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• Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Christian, Doctors, Long

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• The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.

  Clayton Christensen

  Teaching, Past, Data

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• Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.

  Hannah Storm

  Heart, Humble, Kids

  "ESPN's Hannah Storm on Hiking With Ronda Rousey, Watching a Ball Game With Vin Scully (Q&A)". Interview with Debbie Emery, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 24, 2014.

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• I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Strong, Believe, Hard Work

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• Great people have great values and great ethics.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  People, Great Value, Values

  Twitter post from Mar 13, 2016

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• Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

  Freeman Dyson

  Technology, Toys, Rich

  Freeman J. Dyson (2016). “Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life”, p.347, World Scientific

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• Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

  John Berger

  Men, Choices, Priorities

  "The denial of true reflection" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2006.

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• Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

  Matthew Arnold

  Feelings, Lit

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.21

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• The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!

  Anil Ambani

  Party, Want, Retrospect

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• [There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.

  William James

  Responsibility, World, Paganism

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• The only way to truly be protected at all times is to claim your personal power with the highest code of ethics and responsibility. If you are centered in this type of power, the power of the universe supports you, and no one and nothing can defeat you.

  Christopher Penczak

  Responsibility, Support You, Code Of Ethics

  Christopher Penczak, Andrea Neff (2004). “The Witch's Shield: Protection Magick & Psychic Self-defense”, p.30, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophy, Home, Years

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• As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.

  Heather Bresch

  Perseverance, Ideas, People

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• I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

  Desmond Tutu

  Leadership, Wisdom, Class

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• Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Atheism, Rivals

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• What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Religious, Ideas

  "On Liberty". Philosophical work by John Stuart Mill, 1859.

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• You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Two, Self, Law

  Source: rzim.org

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• I think just what my parents instilled in me was hard work and being able to always go out there and focus and be 100%. I took that work ethic into the NFL and everyday I always gave 100% and never wanted anything to be handed to me. I wanted to earn it. And every time I stepped on that football field during practice I wanted to leave that football field with learning something about what the practice was about for me that day...

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Hard Work, Thinking

  "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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