Quotes by Ethics What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. Henry David Thoreau chiefs ethics morality You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. Henry David Thoreau affinity ethics morality Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where. Jacques Yves Cousteau ethics driving bigs I, like many people, had some sort of preconception about Madonna. One of the preconceptions was that she had the extraordinary work ethic, which turned out to be absolutely true. James D'arcy ethics work-ethic people This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again. James A. Baldwin ethics white world Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics. Henry David Thoreau ethics morality physics Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. James MacGregor Burns ethics technique leadership 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 ethics beautiful art We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens. Jane Addams size mixing ethics English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared. Jane Gardam archer ethics country Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. Jane Rule mimicking ethics order I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. Janeane Garofalo ethics work-ethic real No one is happy unless he respects himself. Jean-Jacques Rousseau self-respect ethics respect Great people have great values and great ethics. Jeffrey Gitomer great-value ethics people The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. Jello Biafra ethics rocks roots We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization. Joan D. Chittister ethics spiritual needs If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with. Joanne Harris ethics want-something mother Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart. Joe Greene dedication ethics attitude I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic. Joan Didion ethics adults If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws. Johann Sigurjonsson ethics would-be integrity «56789101112131415»