Ethics Quotes - Page 9

• Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

  W. Clement Stone

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

  Carl Sandburg

  Taken, Class, Textbooks

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• Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

  Mark Twain

  Integrity, Real, Carpe Diem

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics? But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness? Man, then, can not be happy through science but today he can much less be happy without it.

  Henri Poincare

  Truth, Men, Giving

  1904 TheValue of Science.

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• Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in history, different from other countries. Other nations had evolved one way or another, evolved from tribes from a gathering of clans, from inevitabilities of language and tradition and geography. But America was born, and born of ideas: that all men are created equal, that they have been given by God certain rights that can be taken from them by no man, and that those rights combine to create a thing called freedom.

  Peggy Noonan

  Country, Business, Taken

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• ... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

  Aristotle

  Men, Perfect, Soul

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• So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Religious, Brother, Men

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• Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Ethics And Morals, Morality, Moral Ethics

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• Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

  George Washington

  Wise, Wisdom, Inspiration

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• The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Heart, Men

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• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.139, BookBaby

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• Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Integrity, Moral Ethics

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• Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

  Spencer Johnson

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth

  Jay Abraham

  Integrity, Positive Words, Mouths

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• This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

  Louise Slaughter

  Independent, House, Abuse

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• We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

  Gary Oldman

  Code Of Ethics, Given, Live By

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

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• I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

  Josef Albers

  Men, May, Should

  Josef Albers, Paul Overy, South Bank Centre (1994). “Josef Albers: a national touring exhibition from the South Bank Centre 1994”, Centre

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• The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

  Jello Biafra

  Rocks, Roots, Punk

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• I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Law, Wells

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.339

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• Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

  Christopher Dawson

  Christian, Literature, Way

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• Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Christian, Morality, Evangelical

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• There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

  Marvin Bower

  Business, Kind, Standards

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• I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

  George Will

  Important, Spheres, Action

  George F. Will (1984). “Statecraft as Soulcraft”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

  Price Pritchett

  Believe, Excellence, Belief

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