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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

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity — Stefan Molyneux

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30. — Steve Odland

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. — Graham Greene

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence. — Sam Harris

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right. — Peter Marshall

Ethics is the new competitive environment — Peter Robinson

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being. — Marcus Aurelius

The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals — Sunday Adelaja

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. — Albert Schweitzer

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning. — Simone De Beauvoir

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind
you have to adhere to the highest standards. — Marvin Bower

Everything good is good because of the love it contains. — John K. Brown

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

Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows. — Michael Josephson

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective. — Samora Machel

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. — Baruch Spinoza

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. — G.K. Chesterton

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

One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both. — Neel Burton

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

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. — V. Raymond Edman

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

If ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which may be green, or at times red — Priyavrat Thareja

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

The pen isn't really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon. — Lemon Andersen

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print. — Walter Cronkite

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

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking. — Mahatma Gandhi

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past. - Corliss Lamont, humanist philosopher — Dale McGowan

Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable. — John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor. — J. William Fulbright

Is it a thorny question of ethics? Or is it the sort of ethical question where the right choice is easy, but the unethical answer is too tempting? — Courtney Milan

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things. — Aristotle.

We opt to be seen as 'right' in the eyes of everyone else, rather than doing what's 'right' in light of the situation. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

What need does the earth have of us? — Pope Francis

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

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. — Stanley Milgram

You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics — Jeri Massi

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion. — Austin Phelps

Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other. — Starhawk

Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer — Patrick Suskind

For the greater good":
the phrase that always precedes
the greatest evil. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts. — Bianca Jagger

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying. — Michel De Montaigne

Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. — Adam Smith

The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics. — Socrates

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other — Michel De Montaigne

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit. — Jeffrey D. Sachs

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he has injured you — Henry Fielding

Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled. — Immanuel Kant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation. — Samuel Butler

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

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

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be. — Aristotle.

If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws. — Johann Sigurjonsson

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings. — Peter Singer

The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period. — Amy Dacyczyn

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others. — Jostein Gaarder

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. — Jello Biafra

The best cinema is about ethics. — Alexander Payne

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

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

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be. — Michael Josephson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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