Quotes of Ethic - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling. ”

- Valdemar W. Setzer

“ Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. ”

- Jane Addams

“ Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. ”

- Bertrand Russell

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

- V. Raymond Edman

“ Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics — a rational ethics — as a precondition of rebirth. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School. ”

- Sir John Harvey

“ Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic.". ”

- Barbara Ehrenreich

“ We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ If a man is good in his heart, then he is an ethical member of any group in society. If he is bad in his heart, he is an unethical member. To me, the ethics of medical practice is as simple as that. ”

- Elmer Hess

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

- Earl Warren

“ Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ 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 Edison

“ The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action. ”

- Margaret Halsey

“ Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence. ”

- Robert A. Lutz

“ Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ”

- Freda Adler

“ I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ 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

“ 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 Alva Edison

“ Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. ”

- Isaac Asimov

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

- Spencer Johnson

“ Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. ”

- Felix Adler

“ Actually, there is only one "first question" of government, and it is "How should we live?" or "What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?". ”

- George F. Will

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

- Oscar Wilde

“ Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. ”

- William E. Gladstone
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