Ethics Quotes - Page 8

• Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Driving, Bigs, Machinery

  22 Copy quote

• [R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

  Immanuel Kant

  Psychology, Action, Moral

  7 Copy quote

• This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

  James A. Baldwin

  White, World, This World

  "This Lonesome Place" by Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. January 29, 2001.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

  Peter Singer

  Sadness, Thoughtful, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Bikers, Ethics And Morals

  "The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson".

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

  Jo Ann Davis

  Running, Reform, Addresses

  7 Copy quote

• According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

  Irving Babbitt

  Sentimental, Virtue, Intoxication

  8 Copy quote

• Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

  Grace Slick

  Use, Things Change, Born

  7 Copy quote

• Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Tolerance, Matter, Belief

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.159, tredition

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

  Bianca Jagger

  Europe, Viewpoints, World

  7 Copy quote

• The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

  Bille August

  Moral, Study, Novel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

  Earl Warren

  Sea, Law, Civilized

  Speech at the Louis Marshall Award Dinner of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Americana Hotel, New York City, November 11, 1962.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morality, Chiefs, Customs

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taken, Animal, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.37, 谷月社

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.

  Alice Crary

  Matter, Merit, Individual

  8 Copy quote

• A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Trust, Wise, Men

  4 Copy quote

• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

  294 Copy quote

  Show source

• Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Trust, Service Culture, Organization

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Justice, Community

  13 Copy quote

• Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

  Lajos Kossuth

  May, Morality, Obligation

  4 Copy quote

• Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness.

  Nick Saban

  Strong, Opportunity, Work Ethic

  426 Copy quote

• The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity ... these are choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.

  Michael Moore

  Being Yourself, Integrity, Adversity

  15 Copy quote

• The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Years, One Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Believe, Principles

  50 Copy quote

• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

  216 Copy quote