Ethics Quotes

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

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

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.

Grub first, then ethics.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

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

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

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

The best cinema is about ethics.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

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

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

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.

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.