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What is good is irrepressible. — Robert A. Giacalone

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

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. — Henry David Thoreau

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

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell? — Donald Miller

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

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do. — Mike Mills

Refusal to stand up for what you believe in weakens individual morality and ethics as well as those of the culture. — Bell Hooks

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. — Sam Harris

Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don't get caught, then you haven't violated any ethics. — John Grisham

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can. — James Mercer

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. — Richard Stallman

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things? — Nenia Campbell

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. Potter Stewart, — Max Allan Collins

The beauty of ethics is that nobody can be perfectly certain about what it includes or even what it means. — Robertson Davies

We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization. — Joan D. Chittister

If any morality or ethics does not include kindness as their fundamental ingredient, then they are just an absurdity. — Debasish Mridha

What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation? — Jonah Goldberg

We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what's not quite right is quite wrong. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right. — Lyndon Johnson

He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God. — Suzy Kassem

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair — Michael Josephson

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening. — Andy Wilkinson

Rise above principle and do what is right. — Walter Heller

What men do matters more than what they know. — John Christopher

What we might consider is how we are good rather than how good we are. — Merrit Malloy

Men with power had the responsibility to know what was best, and they so rarely did. — Beck Sherman

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process. — Barney Frank

What a great pleasure to work for your living? — Lailah Gifty Akita

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. — W. Somerset Maugham

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. — Derek Freeman

Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong. — Michael P. Naughton

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it. — Marlo Thomas

What's the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter? — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. — Peter Singer

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

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

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

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

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

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

When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing. — Ellen J. Barrier

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

You can do what's right, or you can do what you are told. — Phil Ochs

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing? — Jaron Lanier

What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature? — Kevin Dutton

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap. — Price Pritchett

Ethics are my veiled mistress; I love them, but know not what they are. — Robert Louis Stevenson

If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical. — Philip K. Dick

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit — Aristotle.

What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions. — Shannon L. Alder

His moral lecture
blazed with hate.
What could have driven a child that far? — Dag Hammarskjold

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is. — Stanley Hauerwas

What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? — Various

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

I have gained this by philosophy ... I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law. — Aristotle.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics. — Roger Mudd

Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn't make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad. — Kavita Kane