Ethics Quotes - Page 12

• I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

  Aldo Leopold

  Thinking, Land, Community

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.190, Oxford University Press

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• Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in years, is a dark, funny, and smart page-turning crime story. It's also a moving, thoughtful meditation on ethics, religion, family, and a culture that eats itself. I loved this book.

  Sara Gran

  Smart, Moving, Book

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• Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Offense And Defense, Giving

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• Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

  Henry Fielding

  Trust, Men, Reason

  "The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great".

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• The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

  Max Weber

  Responsibility, Opposites, Conviction

  Max Weber, Peter Lassman, Ronald Speirs (1994). “Weber: Political Writings”, p.368, Cambridge University Press

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• People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in their youth and in adulthood-intelligent, responsive, empathic, and highly sensitive. They will take pleasure in life and will not feel any need to kill or even hurt others or themselves. They will use their power to defend themselves, not to attack others. They will not be able to do otherwise than respect and protect those weaker than themselves, including their children, because this is what they have learned from their own experience.

  Alice Miller

  Hurt, Children, Honesty

  "The Roots of Violence" by Alice Miller, www.alice-miller.com. 2015.

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• Ethics are more important than laws.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Law, Important

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• If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

  Mickey Kaus

  Work Ethic, Healthy, Goes On

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• I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard in life, then good would come to you. The harder you work, the luckier you get. I've come to believe that it's the smarter you work, the better.

  Ken Blanchard

  Success, Believe, Thinking

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• Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

  S.C. Stephens

  Lines, Path, Sides

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• In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

  Carol Gilligan

  Lying, Responsibility, Ties

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.131, Harvard University Press

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• The object is evident in the name of the discipline. Similarly, theology (theologia) is the study of God. The object of theology is not the church's teaching or the experience of pious souls. It is not a subset of ethics, religious studies, cultural anthropology, or psychology. God is the object of this discipline.

  Michael Horton

  Religious, Teaching, Names

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• Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

  Otto Weininger

  Logic, Duty, Oneself

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.159, Рипол Классик

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• I am proud of my achievements, my work ethic, and the way I live my life. The PGA Tour not only treated me unfairly, but displayed a lack of professionalism that should concern every professional golfer and fan of the game.

  Vijay Singh

  Games, Work Ethic, Achievement

  "Vijay Singh sues PGA Tour in supreme court over doping sanction" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2013.

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• Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Records, Magazines, Television

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• I just really want to continue on the same intensity of work ethic, I don't want to slow now. I'm 21-year's old and I feel like this era and a few years to come are my prime years, so I want to utilise them.

  Jason Derulo

  Years, Work Ethic, Want

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• Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Good Things, Contagious, Aesthetics

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Jan 13, 2012

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• Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Math, Needs, Logic

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1933). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics”, Harvard University Press

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

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Issues, Ends

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• Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Offering, People, Goal

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• When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.

  Eugene Odum

  Optimistic, Challenges, Together

  Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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• My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

  Jerry Rice

  School, Work Ethic, Parent

  Interview With Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 1, 2007.

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• You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.

  Zig Ziglar

  Dream, Work Ethic, Hustle

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• America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

  Dylan Moran

  Hard Work, Holiday, Thinking

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• So is work ethic. You do things over and over again, and when you get in a situation you like to think it comes natural. I think there has to be a mind-set that you’re not afraid to fail. I’m not afraid to fail. I’ve done it quite a bit. The calmer you are, the more the game slows down for you, and I think part of that is controlling your emotions.

  Derek Jeter

  Thinking, Games, Work Ethic

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