Ethics Quotes - Page 6

• The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

  Theodor Adorno

  Principles, Firsts, Accusers

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.50, Verso

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• More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

  Peter Singer

  Compromise, Expediency, Expedience

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

  Ron Silver

  Rights, Laughing, Bigger

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• In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

  Laura Miller

  Years, Cities, Focus

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• We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

  Marty Meehan

  Broken, Needs, Enforcement

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

  Laura Miller

  Real, Cities, People

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• I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Cities, Mind, Moral

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• I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

  Keith Olbermann

  Memories, Wipe, Painkillers

  Keith Olbermann (2006). “The Worst Person In the World: And 202 Strong Contenders”, p.32, John Wiley & Sons

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• Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

  Paulo Freire

  Peace, Honesty, Powerful

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.122, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

  Billy Graham

  Integrity, Practice, World

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• I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Work Ethic, Feelings, Buzz

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Sweet, Freedom

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

  William James

  Philosophical, Quality, Ethical

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.242, Penguin

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• It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

  Margaret Mead

  Fear, Fog, Punishment

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• All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Lying

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Believe, Reality, Men

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Leadership, Freedom, Business

  "Poems of Problems" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Protest", (pp. 154 - 155), 1914.

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• Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

  Bono

  Children, Blind Spots, Age

  Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered 19 May 2004

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• He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mind, Weakness, Morality

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrat" by Baruch Spinoza, part III: "On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions", 1677.

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• I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.

  Natasha Richardson

  Inspiring, Daughter, Mother

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• When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.

  Albert Einstein

  Business, Intellectual, Society

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• I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Business, Society, Alive

  United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Henry Thomas, John Pope, John Gray Foster (1866). “Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: in two volumes ; supplemental to Senate report no. 142, 38th Congress, 2d session”, p.15

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• Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

  Hugo Ball

  Morality, Ethical, Predicaments

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• Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.

  Price Pritchett

  Pride, Vanity, Self

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• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hype

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1845). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations”, p.129, New York, Wiley & Putnam

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