Ethical Behavior Quotes:

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Death, Religious, Atheist, Knowledge And Understanding, Spinoza

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Behavior, Ethical, Doing The Right Thing, Wrong Things, Ethical Behavior

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

- Henry Kravis

source: "Veterans Showcase Integrity as a Core Strength, First and Foremost!" by Dwayne Paro, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2016.

topic: Money, Integrity, World, Leadership Integrity, Ethical Behavior

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.

- Ted Koppel

topic: Inspiring, Practice, Morality, Ethical Behavior

But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

source: Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

topic: Commitment, Garden, Goats, Ethical Behavior

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.326, Best Books on

topic: Responsibility, Government, Political, Ethical Behavior

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Death, God, Wisdom, Anti Religious, Intelligence And Education

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

- Earl Warren

topic: Character, Men, Mazes, Destructive Behavior, Ethical Behavior

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

- Robert K. Greenleaf

topic: Community, Behavior, Ethical, Ethical Behavior, Trust Respect

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

- Vinoba Bhave

topic: Country, Arms, Behavior, Ethical Behavior

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

- Derek Bok

topic: Thinking, Differences, Issues, Higher Standards, Ethical Behavior

Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

- Zig Ziglar

source: Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Teaching, School, Home, Ethical Behavior

Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty is integral to ethical behavior, and trustworthiness is essential for good, lasting relationships.

- Buck Rodgers

topic: Honesty, Believe, Misunderstood, Trustworthiness, Ethical Behavior

If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members

- Francis Fukuyama

topic: Levels, Behavior, Ethical, Ethical Behavior

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Fear, Fog, Punishment, Ethical Behavior

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Men, Rewards, Way, Science Religion, Modern Physics

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

- John Dos Passos

source: John Dos Passos (1956). “The Theme is Freedom”

topic: Strong, Men, Long, Ethical Behavior

The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low road of least resistance, can we even afford to travel the high road of ethical behavior? Frankly, we can't afford anything else. Any other competitive angle is a pure crapshoot in today's business world. Companies with shaky ethics and shabby standards will be crippled as they try to compete in our changing world.

- Price Pritchett

topic: Believe, Cutting, Self, High Road, Ethical Behavior

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Life, Science, Animal, Ethical Behavior

Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and ethical behavior." They often formulate necessities as objectives; for example, "to achieve sufficient profit." This is like a person saying his mission is to breathe sufficiently.

- Russell L. Ackoff

source: Russell L. Ackoff (1986). “Management in Small Doses”, Wiley

topic: Risk, Example, Management, Mission Statement, Platitudes

Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Research, Corruption, Behavior, Ethical Behavior

A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.

- Sam Harris

topic: Spiritual, Religious, Strong, Strong Community, Ethical Behavior

We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our conscience in his embodiment of the Old Code ethical behavior and morality. At the same time, he's our unconscious, the place from which our dreams arise. I just spoke my lines to the dragon within me.

- Dennis Quaid

topic: Dream, Dragons, Lines, Ethical Behavior

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Animal, Men, Skills, Social Skills, Ethical Behavior