Ethics Quotes - Page 23

• A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

  Ai Weiwei

  Mean, Historical, Moral

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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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• Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000 gold Rolex watch, for which he was severely admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee in July. To recap: raising $100 million in contributions from gigantic corporations - ethical; taking a watch - unethical. That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1974.

  Jon Stewart

  Powerful, Party, July

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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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• 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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• 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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• Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Light, White, Empathy

  Albert Schweitzer (1965). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”, New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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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 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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• 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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• Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, May, Achieve

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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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• It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and Platoís heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.

  Robert Dabney

  Education, Children, Plato

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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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• In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.

  Graca Machel

  Teamwork, Children, Support

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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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• As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

  Lance Morrow

  Country, Work, Wealth

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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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• I think the biggest lesson that I take from 'Avatar' on any set that I go to is just work ethic. Working with Jim Cameron, you're used to working very, very long days and you're very meticulous about details. He's very, very picky about little details, little character-isms and things.

  Laz Alonso

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

  Pete Cashmore

  Strong, Growing Up, Dad

  "Pete Cashmore Started A Blog Because It Was Something He Could Do From Bed" by Teri Evans, www.businessinsider.com. December 11, 2011.

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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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• My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Strong, Work Ethic, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.

  Alan Bradley

  Children, Writing, Ideas

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• My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.

  Amanda Holden

  Strong, Work Ethic, Priorities

  "Amanda Holden: 'I'm not the slapper the press portrayed me as'". Interview With Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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