Ethics Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Character, Buddhism

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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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• 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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• Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Reality, Government, Political

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• Ethics are more important than laws.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Law, Important

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Florida, Littles, Way

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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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• Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Cost, Research, Firsts

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• I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

  Arthur Koestler

  Civilization, Ethical, Not Sure

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• Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Liberty

  Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1950). “Three Plays: Mukta-dhara, Natir Puja, Chandalika”

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• He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

  Khalil Gibran

  Song, Art, Philosophy

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it has borrowed from the Christian ethic, but it lacks the element of moral wisdom that would give it permanence. Future historians will record that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Believe, Civilization

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• Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

  Madame de Stael

  Morality, Guides, Calculations

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• Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.

  Victor Cousin

  Art, Morality, Infinite

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• It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

  David Riesman

  Generations, Indolence, Tendencies

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.177, Transaction Publishers

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• I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

  Alison Brie

  Strong, Work Ethic, Trying

  "Alison Brie Has Still Got It" by Matt Ufford, uproxx.com. August 02, 2010.

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• Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Children, Responsibility, Community

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• I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

  Neko Case

  Christian, Stories, Want

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• I hope the story of 2011 is that America gets its mojo back. You've got to remember that America has the best universities; it's got some of the best businesses. It's got an unbelievable work ethic, rule of law. The story of 2011 will be America blossoming again.

  Jamie Dimon

  Law, America, Work Ethic

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