Quotes by Ethics Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable. John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton ethics obedience The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. John Donne fleas ethics doe It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School. John Harvey-Jones ethics leadership school My view of ethics and of its priority is connected to my view that we are fundamentally relational beings - both the product of human interactions, as well as committed as part of the expression of our own humanity to various social involvements. I see ethics as having two places in the maintenance of these relational activities - first as providing the basic coinage of our interactions qua humans and second as mediating the various roles we assume as humans. John Kleinig priorities ethics humanity As a matter of ethics - our broader social life needs to be constrained by law and other devices - resolving at the societal level matters that should not be left for individual ethical negotiation. What is important - in the end - is that we are enabled to flourish in ways that acknowledge our dignity. John Kleinig ethics dignity important Ethics is for people with full bellies. John Kessel belly ethics people No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic. John Kenneth Galbraith ethics work-ethic work The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine. John Scott innocence-and-experience ethics artist Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass. John Vanbrugh good-man ethics justice Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. John Ruskin ethics morality taste Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen. Jon Runyan ethics work-ethic blessed That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973. Jon Stewart rolex oxymoron ethics If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong. Jonathan Haidt oppression ethics growing-up There is no spirituality without ethics Jonathan Wittenberg judaism spirituality ethics In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. Jonathan Sacks ethics revolution self Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything. Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado ethics technology knowledge 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. Jorge Luis Borges spheres ethics evil I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. Josef Albers ethics may men We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics. Jon Stewart ethics fake opportunity Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. Joseph Wood Krutch customs bases ethics «678910111213141516»