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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Port Royal, Jamaica, was built for pirates. The town had a well-protected harbor, corrupt politicians and townsfolk, and a set of ethics that seemed passed down from Sodom and Gomorrah.
When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet?
We have to address the safety of women, and that is of utmost importance right now. I would love to work only with people with ethics and the right moral conduct.
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
Donald Trump may undermine some of the traditional checks on the presidency: the press in particular, but also the various government and Congressional ethics bodies, as well as the career civil service.
Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.
It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.
The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.
The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.
You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.
There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.
In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.
Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.
Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president.
Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.
Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.
[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.
If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.
America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.
Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.
Our core values and business ethics will always be paramount in all that we do, and we are always looking to do the right thing and settle claims fairly and accurately.
Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.
Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
For all of the separateness of church and state, Christian morality has shaped Britain and its inhabitants for a very long time.
You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.
You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.
Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!
Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.
Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.
There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.
There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.
For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.
