Quotes of Ethics - somelinesforyou

“ Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it. ”

- Izaak Walton

“ Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics — a rational ethics — as a precondition of rebirth. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it. ”

- Cleveland Amory

“ Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Conscience — the only incorruptible thing about us. ”

- Henry Fielding

“ Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling. ”

- Valdemar W. Setzer

“ Grub first, then ethics. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. ”

- Jane Addams

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

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. ”

- V. Raymond Edman

“ It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School. ”

- Sir John Harvey

“ We're going to stand firm for the principle that religious freedom and freedom of religious conscience need to be upheld, and we are hoping for a favorable resolution in this case. ”

- Condoleezza Rice

“ We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ I know myself know; and I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ”

- Thomas Edison

“ A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents. ”

- Melvin R. Laird

“ If a man is good in his heart, then he is an ethical member of any group in society. If he is bad in his heart, he is an unethical member. To me, the ethics of medical practice is as simple as that. ”

- Elmer Hess

“ In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. ”

- Earl Warren

“ The paradoxical — and tragic — situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Conscience without judgment is superstition. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. ”

- Peter Singer

“ I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you. ”

- Bill Withers

“ Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ”

- H.L. Mencken

“ Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ”

- H. L. Mencken
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