Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Singer

Ethics is inescapable.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

Immanuel Kant

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

Mike Mills

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

Michael Josephson

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

Michael Josephson

The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

Theaster Gates

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

Libba Bray

Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

The ethical standard is pretty much universal. It's the same reason physicians can't be involved in coerced interrogations.

Mahatma Gandhi

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

This is a good test of seeing where everyone is going to be and where we are going to be. If the work ethic is any indicator we should do pretty well.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

Richard Gephardt

This is not something where I go off and make decisions. I have to talk to my colleagues, talk with the caucus. We have an ethics process in this House that has to be respected. We're going to do these things in the right way,

Ratan Tata

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Roland Barthes

One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exist and are produced and are consumes ... Such a reversal necessarily raises the ethical question: not that the image is immoral, irreligious, or diabolic (as some have declared it, upon the advent of the Photograph), but because, when generalized, it completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it.

Vivek Wadhwa

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

Walter Lippmann

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Wallace Stevens

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

Samuel Butler

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.

Tariq Ramadan

To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

Susan Sontag

The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.