Top 1200 Ethical Principles Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons - afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life is ethical, not mystical. The mystery has gone and society is disintegrating as a result.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.

My mind was by no means easy about the need to carry out a clandestine action in the sovereign territory of a friendly country, and the question of whether it was permissible to do so — from both the ethical and political points of view — had to be faced in all its gravity.

I'm a guy of strong principles and I think people respect that.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

Rely on facts, figures, principles of equality and fairness.

It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as its ethical standpoint.

The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

The knock on [Chris] Christie was always the I guy that he was - I felt inordinately talented politician, a smart and in some ways very capable human being, with a personality given toward authoritarianism and bullying and ethical corner-cutting.

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

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.

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

President Trump and his family are complying with all the ethical rules, everything they need to do to step away from his businesses and be a full-time president.

I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable.

I think that Bible principles will help anybody.

We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.

Our country was founded upon the principles of debate and compromise.

The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.

The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in order to live, and there is no moral or ethical code that dictates that we should refrain from eating and allow ourselves to die for some higher purpose.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

And my principles go right in line with the Tea Party.

We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so - to 'do unto others.'

'Line Of Duty,' for dramatic purposes, tends to create characters whose corruption is balanced on certain ethical conflicts, whereas the majority of corruption in the real world is simply based on greed.

The one thing I say, I will invest in anything - I don't care what it is - as long as it doesn't cut across my ethical code, because at the end of the day I want to be able to live with myself. I want to feel proud of what I do.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Aikido chagnes constantly. What do not change are the principles.

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.

I get along with people. But I don't sacrifice my principles either.