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Politics exists in every organization, We can not deny — Avinash Advani

Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel. — Lynda Williams

Ethics is the enemy of discovery. What you call ethics, I call the rape of science. — Katie Kacvinsky

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics. — Thomas Jefferson

I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise. — George Santayana

There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth. — John Assaraf

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice. — John Rawls

I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.) — Adrian Lamo

Ethics is the new competitive environment — Peter Robinson

I charge my clients for my time and expertise, my heart is free. — Saurabh Gupta

Wisdom is an ethics of knowledge — Jurgen Moltmann

Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics - Loyalty being the other. — Inazo Nitobe

To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god. — Kane Morgan

Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time. — Gary Hopkins

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours. — Dalai Lama

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy. — Abdal Hakim Murad

Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality. — Bernard E. Rollin

A societies needs determines their ethics — Maya Angelou

Blood makes lousy detergent. — Lynda Williams

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview. — Nancy Pearcey

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives. — Ayn Rand

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All lines are gray in the dark. — Nenia Campbell

He is Your Customer, the Reason behind Your Customs. — Vineet Raj Kapoor

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant! — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude. — Thomas Erskine

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment. — Price Pritchett

Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others. — Robert V. Taylor

If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it? — Chuck Klosterman

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. — Earl Warren

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing. — Baruch Spinoza

Many things in life are not fair but all things should be. — Michael Josephson

To demonstrate integrity, a person must have the courage to consistently adhere to a strong ethical code, even in difficult situations. — Scott K. Edinger

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation. — Samuel Butler

That a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive. — David Hume

Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness. — David Hume

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets. — Rita Mae Brown

Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work. — Achille Silvestrini

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle. — Darby Conley

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity. — Simone De Beauvoir

Let us be honest
we have praised Angulimala,
will make no difference
If you convey my salute to Amrapali. — Suman Pokhrel

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971. — Grace Slick

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker ... there is no escape ... people drag others or lift others up. — Booker T. Washington

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. — Sam Harris

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic. — Theaster Gates

Putting yourself in the place of others ... is what thinking ethically is all about. — Peter Singer

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. — Khalil Gibran

The best cinema is about ethics. — Alexander Payne

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing. — Corinne Maier

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar. — Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules. — Wayne Dyer

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous. — John Berger

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain

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"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics! — Oscar Wilde

Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stop barking. — Proverb

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach. — Bertrand Russell

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress. — Robert Breault

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword. — Baruch Spinoza

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion. — Ville Valo

The principle of universality is not a 'theory'. Just moral truism. — Noam Chomsky

There's great peace in surrendering to principles — Stefan Molyneux

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

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies. — Pythagoras

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me. — Plato

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. — Elie Wiesel

Where ethics are concerned, intentions are everything. — Sam Harris

We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also. — Albert Schweitzer

What is moral is what you feel good after. — Ernest Hemingway,

Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion. — Mahavira

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment. — Max Weber

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it. — Thomas Paine

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself — Friedrich Nietzsche

....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure. — G.E. Moore

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact — Peter Singer

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 Tripathi

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. — Theodor Adorno

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power completely to articulate it. — Leon R. Kass

Since the appearance of Christ, ethics can be concerned with only one thing: to partake in the reality of the fulfilled will of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous. — Peter Kreeft

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything. — Mason Cooley

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability. — Mahatma Gandhi

On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology. — Christopher Dawson

While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business. — Jamshyd Godrej

I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect. — Richard M. Stallman

If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you? — K.L. Toth

The effects of overworking; you forget which day it is and unable to think straight. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing. — Aleister Crowley

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics. — Peter Singer

If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice. — Moncure D. Conway

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without. — Dalai Lama

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance. — Graham Greene

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology. — Herbert Marcuse

A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles. — Belsebuub

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle.

Luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene. — Umberto Eco

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis. — Swami Vivekananda