Quotes and Sayings About Ethics
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No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
-- A.J. Ayer -
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.
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Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.
-- Achille Silvestrini -
Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
-- Adam MichnikSource : Adam Michnik (1998). “Letters from Freedom: Post–Cold War Realities and Perspectives”, p.27, Univ of California Press
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Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.
-- Adrian Cadbury -
The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.
-- Aga Khan IV -
Economics and ethics have little in common.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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 -
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Ethics to me is very important.
-- Al-Waleed bin TalalSource : "Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal urged Rebekah Brooks to quit" by Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.
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Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
-- Albert Einstein -
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
-- Alexis de TocquevilleSource : Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”, p.11
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The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years since 1989, the morality of the economy has fully prevailed over the ethics of politics and democracy.
-- Alexis Tsipras -
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My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics
-- Alva MyrdalSource : Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”
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A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.
-- Amish TripathiSource : Amish Tripathi (2012). “The Immortals of Meluha: The Shiva Trilogy”, p.78, Hachette UK
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
-- Anais Nin -
A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
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I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.
-- Angela Sidney -
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
-- Anton Chekhov -
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
-- Aristotle -
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My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
-- Arthur KeithSource : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”
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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 -
Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.
-- Austin Phelps -
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
-- Ayn Rand