Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms. – Hugo Ball
I think its unethical to take money for poor quality performance. – Alvin Burger
The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character. – Stephen Covey
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed. – Bob Dole
Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. – V. Raymond Edman
A mans ethical behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education, and social relationships; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. – Albert Einstein
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. – William Ewart Gladstone
It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School. – Sir John Harvey
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness–a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbors wife. – Thomas Babington Macaulay
Were given a code to live our lives by. We dont always follow it, but its still there. – Gary Oldman
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics — a rational ethics — as a precondition of rebirth. – Ayn Rand
Let me give you one definition of ethics: It is good to maintain life and to further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound, universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion. – Albert Schweitzer
For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. – George Bernard Shaw
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. – Oscar Wilde
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be? – George Will
I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life. – George Will
