Quotes by Ethics I was educated by nuns. None of them, of course, did anything resembling the actions of Lydia from The Handmaid's Tale, but they taught me a work ethic, that I had to toe the line, that I had to step up and do my work, and that we would stay until it was done, and that came from a devotion to making you the best person you can be. That's the take I have on Lydia. She knows her actions are firm and sometimes very harsh, but she also looks after them. Ann Dowd ethics work-ethic done Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics. Anton Chekhov accomplished ethics logic Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say. Aristophanes fairness ethics justice For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity. Aristotle contemplation ethics form The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. Aristotle ethics honesty truth Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation. Aristotle ethics virtue people It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself. Aristotle ethics exercise justice ...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence. Aristotle ethics moral principles I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won. Arnold Palmer ethics work-ethic talent As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. Arthur C. Clarke ethics self science My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. Arthur Keith conviction ethics growth I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes. Arthur Koestler ethical ethics civilization Righteousness is easy in retrospect. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. retrospect ethics integrity All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified. Arthur Schopenhauer ethics facts world I think I have a really good work ethic. Ashlyn Harris ethics work-ethic thinking Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion. Austin Phelps ethics principles religious If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. Ayn Rand ethics respect inspirational A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people. B. R. Ambedkar ethics social people 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. B. R. Ambedkar ethics conflict victory Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.' Barbara Ehrenreich ethics work thinking «1234567891011»