Ethics Quotes

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

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

IF the parent is a drunkard, a gambler and a cheat, no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the young innocence. I will not allow them to be blamed. The fault lies wholly on the shoulders of the elders, the parents, and the leaders who shape the norms which they imbibe.

The ethics committee exercised its responsibility, what was the Republican response? Fire them. Intimidate them.

He'd ask a question that he already knew the answer to, to see where your ethics were and what your commitment was.

I'm sorry to see that again we are turning to the courts for decisions that concern ethics. I think theologians and ethicists would better guide us in such matters, ... If my memory serves me well, more than a decade ago The Episcopal Church said euthanasia or the intentional shortening of an individual's life, by lethal doses of drugs or otherwise, was not acceptable.

We'd rather have it in the hands of a judge with ethics to get us a fair agreement versus the company's unrealistic demands.

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.

Rick's intelligence, ethics and leadership capabilities combined with his experience both inside Gateway and outside of Gateway make him the only logical choice as my successor.

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.

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife.

I think he's been undermined both on his ethics proposals and his property-tax plan. What the summer has shown is that he has no credibility on either.

This is another group of fine high school athletes. They come from good programs with good work ethics. Their high school programs have not only taught them the game, but also taught them what it takes to win. Bottom line, they are some really tough kids who will easily fit into our program and buy into what Bulldog football is all about.

These kids here this year I think even surpassed that bunch in their work ethics and desire and dedication to get it done.

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

The coaches are very pleased to see that the athletes with strong work ethics were able to improve their times and distances throughout the year.

I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

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