Ethics Quotes - Page 35

• Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Two, Groups, Live By

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.... Etiquette must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners. Certainly what one is, is of far greater importance than what one appears to be.

  Emily Post

  Attitude, Character, Personality

  Emily Post, Elizabeth L. Post (1984). “Emily Post's Etiquette”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Strong, Justice, Unjust

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2012). “Man's Nature and His Communities: Essays on the Dynamics and Enigmas of Man's Personal and Social Existence”, p.24, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

  Peter Yarrow

  Song, Issues, Generations

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• As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of Hippocrates that the professional man do nothing that will harm his client.

  Hyman Rickover

  Men, Engineering, Clients

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Awareness, Goodness, Stairs

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• To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Simple, Thinking, People

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• Watering the tree that does give you neither shade nor fruit is a real ethics!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Giving, Tree

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• We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Believe, Billions, Complying

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• I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it.

  Marcus Giles

  Work Ethic, Want, Way

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• Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Book, Mathematical Logic

  "Recollections of Wittgenstein". Book by Rush Rhees, 1984.

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• The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is being spilled in the merriest way, as if it was champagne," Dostoevsky says. That raises the problem of justice, what it might mean in an unjust world and whether there can be an ethics and a political practice that would be able to face and face down the injustice of the present. How might we begin to think about that?

  Simon Critchley

  Disappointment, Mean, Thinking

  "Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley". Interview with Anders Gullestad, truthout.org. May 15, 2010.

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• There's a floating distraction in the contemporary world, life at a distance enabled by technology. I want people to commit at the level of their subjectivity. The idea of subjective commitment is at the core of ethics, something that divides the self from itself. I become an ethical self. I cannot meet that ideal, I cannot fulfill it, it divides me from myself and it makes me strive harder. This ideal subjective ethical drive is at the heart of an absolutely earnest, radical politics that insists that people will be able to engage with each other, and they're lifted from irony at that point.

  Simon Critchley

  Distance, Commitment, Heart

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• I looked at people like Lil Wayne. I would go to the studio and I would observe Wayne, and I would literally pray. I would say 'God, give me his work ethic'.

  Nicki Minaj

  People, Giving, Work Ethic

  "Nicki Minaj Uses Others' Success As 'Fuel To Go Hard'" by Hillary Crosley, www.mtv.com. December 21, 2010.

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• Repentance is replete with radical implications for a fundamental change of mind not only turns us from the sinful past, but also transforms our life plan, ethics, and actions as we begin to see the world through God's eyes rather than ours. That kind of transformation requires the ultimate surrender of self.

  Charles Colson

  Eye, Past, Self

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• Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

  Denis Waitley

  Integrity, Finding Yourself, Morality

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• Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

  Donald Berwick

  Doctors, Decision, Regulation

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• Grace is the essence of theology and gratitude is the essence of ethics.

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Gratitude, Essence, Grace

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• Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Reality, Passive Resistance

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• The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility over specialization. With such an ethic, consumers would demand a shift toward more timeless design, away from fast-moving trends. Clothes could become more versatile in terms of what they can be used for, their ability to fit differently shaped bodies and to be altered.

  Juliet B. Schor

  Moving, Practice, Clothes

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• As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving, Quality, Answers

  "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation". Book by Ronald Reagan, 1983.

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• My twenties were carefree in the worst ways. There's a nice balance now of work ethic and healthy lifestyle and carefree attitude, which is pretty nice. You get to a point where you don't care so much what people think of you and you care more about yourself.

  Norman Reedus

  Attitude, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Reading, Circles, Feminist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

  Theaster Gates

  Modernism

  "Theaster Gates’ Monastic Orders". Interview with Ann Binlot, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2014.

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• Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.

  T Bone Burnett

  Song, News, Language

  Source: collider.com

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