1,250 Quotes About Ethics

  • Author Jim Jordan
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    Here's the final word from a giant of American jurisprudence on the methods, motives and ethics of Ken Starr.

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  • Author St. Jerome
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    An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

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  • Author Arthur Keith
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    My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

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  • Author Arthur Koestler
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    I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

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  • Author Hans Küng
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    However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

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  • Author Louis Kronenberger
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    If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick.

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  • Author Milan Kundera
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    A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

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