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Ethics  Quotes
Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel’s plea, ‘My forbears did the same.

—Al-Maʿarri

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Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

—Bernard Branson

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We opt to be seen as ‘right’ in the eyes of everyone else, rather than doing what’s ‘right’ in light of the situation.

—Craig D.

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Jolly” West was born in New York City on October 6, 1924. He died of cancer on January 2, 1999. Dr. West served in the U.S. Army during World War II and received his M.D....

—Colin A.

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He can’t mention ethics because he has failed to keep his promises.

—Edwin Eisendrath

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One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

—Douglas Preston

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A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive.

—Cory Duchesne

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The word “good” has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good...

—G.K. Chesterton

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Most Tories seem to think that ‘ethics’ is a county near Middlesex

—John Prescott

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In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there’s criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.

—Josh Rushing

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The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse...

—John Stuart Mill

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I think that of all the principles for journalism, the most important is to complicate simple things and simplify complicated things. At first sight, you may think something is simple, but it may conceal a...

—Judy Polumbaum

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Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel.

—Lynda Williams

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There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.

—Martin Cohen

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The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some...

—Sam Harris

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The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact,...

—Swami Satchidananda

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Of one thing I am certain: No single people, tradition, religion, governmental form, ethical program, moral code, or civilization has had sufficient wisdom and goodness to set the pattern and govern he world in the...

—S. Michael

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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

—Shirley Chisholm

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We often confuse determination with its evil twin: fixation. While determination is our ability to stand our ground while pursuing our goals. Fixation, on the other hand, is an unhealthy attachment to an ideal.

—Venugopal Gupta

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It is important to refuse to be intimidated. That refusal must not be based simply on a calculation of the odds of succeeding. At times, in my case, multiple lawsuits and an ethics charge seemed...

—Anna C. Salter

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A quiet conscience makes one strong!

—Anne Frank

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Dabei wissen wir doch:Auch der Hass gegen die NiedrigkeitVerzerrt die Züge.Auch der Zorn über das UnrechtMacht die Stimme heiser. Ach, wirDie wir den Boden bereiten wollten für FreundlichkeitKonnten selber nicht freundlich sein.

—Bertolt Brecht

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Due to some dim but irresistible notion of the way things are, it is simply not possible, out of order, not apprpriate to the situation at hand, if, within the circle of those who are...

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Unnatural, unorthodox, amoral: those pretensions crumble when confronted by true happiness. You shouldn’t give another the authority to draw a line defining the boundaries of acceptable joy.

—Darrell Drake

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I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it’s relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could...

—Jarod Kintz

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Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we’ve yet to win. You’d think somebody would have asked before this why the...

—Jack Campbell

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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

—Immanuel Kant

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The best way to guarantee you have a job tomorrow is to not finish all the work your boss asked of you today. Wait, that’s not right. Sorry, I’m thinking like a government employee again.

—Jarod Kintz

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Whenever governments adopt a moral tone – as opposed to an ethical one – you know something is wrong.

—John Ralston Saul

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In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or bitter at the mention of the suffering of animals. A pig to me...

—Matthew Scully

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Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being...

—Murray N.

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Collateral damage could be somebody like Mike DeWine. He is from Ohio and he is a Republican and ethics is a big deal there.

—Jennifer Duffy

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So I’d been captured? So I was starving?Did that mean I had to shrivel up and die?I could still slither. I could still hiss. Nothing had been stolen from me except my freedom.What I needed...

—Patrick Jennings

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Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about...

—Peter Singer

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Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

—Stefan Molyneux

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My view [is] that what morality boils down to is, ‘Don’t harm, and do help.’ And now the question is, ‘Can creatures like chickens and cows be harmed?’ And the answer is, ‘Of course they...

—Shelly Kagan

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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

—Stephen King

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It’s frustrating to witness how popular Fairtrade bananas, coffee and tea have become with shoppers and supermarkets while plenty of unfair trade goes on, largely unnoticed, in our own back yard.

—Rose Prince

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It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are...

—W. Somerset

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those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious

—Baruch Spinoza

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The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life...

—Albert Schweitzer

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If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?

—A.J. Darkholme

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It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them...

—Craig D.

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Serikali inayodhulumu wananchi wake ni hatari kuliko simba.

—Enock Maregesi

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You. What is the moral difference, ifany, between the soldier and the civilian?””The difference,” I answered carefully, “lies in the field of civicvirtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the bodypolitic of...

—Robert A. Heinlein

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One thing, Ms. Gray, is forgotten by this tragedy: the embryo is human, not a nonhuman as the Supreme Court declared. Abortion never was about the poor or about women’s rights. It’s an ideology with...

—J.W. Brazier

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How did Ixtel become real for me? The world is full of Ixtels who I can help without hurting my father. Why this one? How was it her suffering that touched me? Father. I feel...

—Francisco X.

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Every social ethic is doomed to failure if it is blind to personal responsibility” (The Ten Commandments, 10).

—J. Douma

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Like it or not, it’s the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there’s fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within...

—Haruki Murakami

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He’s been trying to cover up his record on ethics reform throughout this process.

—Larry Smar

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