Ethics Quotes - Page 7

• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Aristocracy, Literature, Glory

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• What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

  Barney Frank

  Delay, Republican, Process

  "Oil-for-Food Scandal; Violence in Iraq; Operation FALCON". "News From CNN" with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. April 14, 2005.

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• Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

  Paracelsus

  Philosophy, Medicine, Four

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.59, Princeton University Press

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• Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

  Emily Post

  Honor, Important, Use

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• Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

  Ville Valo

  School, Religion

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• According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

  Bob Riley

  Christian, Income, Care

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• While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

  Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

  Country, Needs, Guarding

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• Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

  Jane Mayer

  Beauty, Thinking, Doctors

  "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

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• The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

  Leon Kass

  Thinking, Way, Technological

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• Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

  Charles Van Doren

  Book, Reading, Years

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• So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

  Harry Reid

  Change, House, Want

  "Inside Politics" with Judy Woodruff, edition.cnn.com. March 3, 2005.

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• There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

  Steve Odland

  Years, Sea, Focus

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• Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Movie, Men, Views

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

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• I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

  Roger Spottiswoode

  Thinking, Engineering, Ethics And Morals

  "Interview With The 6th Day Director Roger Spottiswoode". Interview with Scott Brake, www.ign.com. November 17, 2000.

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• Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Connections, Citizens, Morality

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• Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

  Karen Armstrong

  Life, Change, Truth

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• Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Teaching, Atheism, Examination

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• Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Children, Responsibility, Parenting

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• No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sports, Integrity, Athlete

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• Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Integrity, Understanding, Wit

  Oliver Goldsmith (1803). “The Beauties of Goldsmith, Or, The Complete Treasury of Genius: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.106

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• No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Style, Ethical

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.57, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

  Roger Mudd

  Country, Past, Media

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• Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

  William H. Masters

  Pregnancy, Dimensions, Doe

  "Two Sex Researchers on the Firing Line" by William H. Masters in LIFE, June 24, 1966.

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• I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Thinking, Compromise

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