Ethics Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.

  Jess Lair

  Media, Snow, Life Is Like

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• Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bird, Tree, Needs

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• I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.

  Rebel Wilson

  People, Work Ethic, Casting

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• Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.

  Thomas Kean, Jr.

  Party, Play, Trying

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• But in my mind, I don't think there's any question Sidney Crosby is the best all-around player in the game. His hockey sense is so strong and so solid, combined with his God-gifted talent of being able to see the ice, see the entire picture in front of him. And, most importantly, I don't care how good you are, if you don't have a work ethic, it doesn't matter. There's no question that each and every game, he's one of the hardest-working guys on the ice. In my mind, he's the best player in the game today.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Strong, Hockey, Player

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• The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?

  Rex Murphy

  Horse, Thinking, Waiting

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• What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

  Robert Fripp

  Simple, Years, Economy Today

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• We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

  Enid Blyton

  Christian, Strong, Children

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.

  Gyorgy Lukacs

  Responsibility, Fate, Thinking

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• By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.

  Maynard Webb

  Accomplishment, Work Ethic, Directors

  Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler (2013). “Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons

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• We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Integrity, Plans, Follow Up

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• Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Roots, Humanity, Fruit

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• Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Bases, Customs

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

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• I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,--if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,--if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,--if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men--I will have none of it.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Religious, Men, Giving

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.187, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay.

  Mary Butts

  Trust, Space, Deeds

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• Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

  Ernst Boris Chain

  Science, Law, Long

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• Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They must constantly demonstrate to courts and legislatures alike the tragic results of legal nonintervention. They must highlight how legal doctrines no longer bear any relation to reality, whether in landlord and tenant law, holder in due course law, or any other law. In sum, lawyers must bring real morality into the legal consciousness

  William J. Brennan

  Real, Law, People

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• The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.

  Ted Cruz

  Father, People, History

  "Cruz: 'Tragic,' 'Indefensible' That Supreme Court Chose to Not Hear Marriage Cases" by Sen. Ted Cruz, www.dailysignal.com. October 6, 2014.

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• Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Eye, Judging

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• The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Class, Labels

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security.

  Nancy Pelosi

  War, Issues, People

  "Pelosi tells Obama to act on Syria" by Jonathan Allen and Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. August 29, 2013.

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• The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

  Carol Gilligan

  Sacrifice, People, Blind

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• But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Crazy, Spring, War

  "Assad and Obama on Syria's civil war". "60 Minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. September 15, 2013.

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• From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics - it's really about people meeting together through sports and putting aside their countries' differences for that time.

  Brian Boitano

  Leadership, Sports, Wisdom

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, cbsnews.cbsig.net. January 26, 2014.

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