Top 1200 Morality And Ethics Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Morality is the object of government.

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

Fear is the mother of morality.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.

Women are the guardians of morality.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

Man was destined for society. His morality therefore was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong merely relative to this. This sense is as much a part of his nature as the sense of hearing, seeing, feeling; it is the true foundation of morality... The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body.

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

Veracity is the heart of morality.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement

Morality binds and blinds.

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

I would never stay in office against the will of the people. My ethics and patriotism do not allow me to do so.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Conventionality is not morality.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.

I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

Morality, when formal, devours.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Morality is contraband in war.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

Morality is not a spectator sport.

Economics is not a morality play.

True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Morality is essentially a suite of psychological mechanisms that enable us to cooperate. But, biologically at least, we only evolved to cooperate in a tribal way. Individuals who were more cooperative with those around them - could outcompete others who were not. However, we have the capacity to take a step back from this and ask what a more global morality would look like. Why are the lives of people on the other side of the world worth any less than those in my immediate community? Going through that reasoning process can allow our moral thinking to do something it never evolved to.

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.

Morality is a personal matter.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

The ruling ideology prefers to talk about individual ethics rather than the capitalist system.

Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.

Civilization depends on morality.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

There's no such thing as morality.

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

Trump is a dust storm of lies and diversions with the bellows of a bully and the greasy ethics of a street-corner hustler.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.