Top 1200 Morality And Ethics Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

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

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

In every project I do, I'm unwilling to compromise my values and morals and ethics. That's very important to me.

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.

In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

I still live very much by punk ethics, but in a more grown up way.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

Where there is no freedom there can be no morality.

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.

You can't legislate morality.

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

There are certain things that we can accomplish by law and there are certain things that we cannot accomplish by law or by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. Nor can we legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.

Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.

I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

The market has no morality

Integrity, probity, ethics and transparency is needed but most important is the culture of discipline

The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth.

We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope

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

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

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

I'm very true to the old punk ethics of honesty and truthfulness and integrity... and still be authentic.

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

Morality is not respectability.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Anytime you're dealing with moral issues, in a government position, you're dealing with some sticky stuff because everybody's morality is different. So you may be a Christian and say "my morality is based on the Bible." But if it doesn't line up with the way they think it should line up, now you got a problem with them. And then you can say, "I'm more in line with the Bible," but you don't care about the Bible, so they are like 'why are you imposing these difficult rules on me? I don't even believe in that.' So you just have an interesting and sticky situation.

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages.

Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies.

Meaningful ethics reform is vital to restoring public confidence in Missouri's political system.

Living up to your commitments is part of business ethics. My word is my bond.

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

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

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

A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.

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

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

Parsee culture is definitely one of strong business acumen, high ethics, and an element of philanthropy.

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

Watering the tree that does give you neither shade nor fruit is a real ethics!