Ethics Quotes

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. (Henry Miller)
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. View quote
Earl Warren
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.Civilization and Ethics, 1949. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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. View quote
Thomas Edison
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. View quote
Albert Einstein
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The needs of a society determine its ethics. (Maya Angelou)
9) Ethics change with technology. View quote
Larry Niven
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context. View quote
Steven Erikson
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
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. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics. View quote
Alva Myrdal
I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character. View quote
Corin Nemec
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. View quote
Dee Hock
We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system. View quote
Marty Meehan
Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights. View quote
Ron Silver
If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem. (Kiefer Sutherland)
Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. When I am a child, creating, I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child. View quote
Shigeru Miyamoto
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy. View quote
Michael Shermer
Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich. View quote
Freeman Dyson