Ethics Quotes - Page 5

• If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

  Robert Noyce

  Business, Responsibility, Organization

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• We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Business, Military

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

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• It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Courage, Integrity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs [e.g. the sacrifice of many victims] of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Business, Real, Army

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• You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

  Massad Ayoob

  Intelligence, Born

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• Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

  Ayn Rand

  Western Culture, Needs, Code Of Ethics

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.413, Penguin

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• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Damage Is Done, Giving, Definitions

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational Life, Integrity, Evil

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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  My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

  George Eliot

  Compassion, Joy, Suffering

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.237, 谷月社

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• Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Self Esteem, Compassion, Achievement

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• At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that there is no greater citizen than she who sacrifices; and that there is no greater measure of worth than contribution. These are values we can be proud of. After all, there is no moral system or religion on earth where the guiding ethic is grab more for yourself.

  Eric Liu

  Heart, Sacrifice, Ideas

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.34, Sasquatch Books

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• In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Trust, Betrayal

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• Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

  Aristotle

  People, Justice, Quality

  Aristotle (2003). “The Aristotle's Ethics: Nicomachean Ethics”, Spark Notes

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• I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

  Samuel Alito

  Feet, Letters, Spirit

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• One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Evil, Spheres, Influence

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952”

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• If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

  Cal Thomas

  Business, People, Society

  Cal Thomas (1988). “The death of ethics in America”, W Publishing Group

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• Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Leadership, Technique, Management

  James MacGregor Burns (1978). “Leadership”, Harpercollins

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• In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

  Pete McCloskey

  Honesty, Men, Leader

  "Pete McCloskey Talks about GOP Corruption - IV". Interview with Kelpie Wilson, www.scoop.co.nz. March 1, 2006.

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• Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

  Richard Stallman

  Way, Absolute Certainty, Whether God Exists

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot.org Interview, slashdot.org. May 01, 2000.

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• In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act toward us, if we were in his circumstances and he in ours; or more generally - What we approve in others, that we ought to practise in like circumstances, what we condemn in others we ought not to do.

  Thomas Reid

  Judging, Psychology, Action

  Thomas Reid, Ronald E. Beanblossom, Keith Lehrer (1983). “Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays”, p.355, Hackett Publishing

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• The needs of a society determine its ethics.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Needs, Caged Birds

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.173, Modern Library

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

  Aristotle

  Contemplation, Form, Intellect

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• You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

  Robert Frost

  Brave, Chance, Morality

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