Ethics Quotes - Page 10

• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Death

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

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• Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

  William Butler Yeats

  Doe, Cry, Teach

  William Butler Yeats (2017). “The Cutting of an Agate”, p.73, BoD – Books on Demand

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• You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

  John Perry Barlow

  Order, Culture, Our Society

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• There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.

  Michael Sandel

  Exercise, Thinking, Medicine

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• Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

  H. Jay Dinshah

  Equality, Men, Hyenas

  "Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism" by Victoria Moran, (p. 32), 1985.

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• In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

  Mark Twain

  Mind, Ethics And Morals, Morality

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.456, Courier Corporation

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• Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Work, Thinking, Quiet

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

  Elvin C. Stakman

  Country, Science, Thinking

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• I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Issues, Intuition

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• Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

  George Will

  Government, People, Firsts

  George F. Will (1984). “Statecraft as Soulcraft”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Hope, Lying, Character

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Fall, Leader, Morality

  Margaret Thatcher (1987). “In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986”

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• Activity is not output.

  Andy Grove

  Motivational, Work Ethic, Efficiency

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• Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

  Thornton Wilder

  Integrity, Liars, Two

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 3.

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• We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

  Pema Chodron

  Integrity, Heart, Compassion

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• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Cheating, Integrity

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.83, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Peace, Politics

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

  Vinod Rai

  Integrity, Discipline, Important

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• We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail.

  John A. Lejeune

  Military, Marine, Army

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  Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Two, Awe And Wonder

  Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)

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• Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Morality

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

  John Francis Dodge

  Honesty, Twilight, White

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• If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Honesty, Liars

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• The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

  H. L. Mencken

  Regret, Character, Men

  Prejudices, Fourth Series ch. 11 (1924)

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• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Freedom, Integrity

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