1,250 Quotes About Ethics

  • Author David Williams
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    You might think, 'How can I get it all right?' ... You have to put it into day-to-day practice. Ethics to me is when you internalize it.

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  • Author George F. Will
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    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?''

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  • Author Heather Wilson
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    I don't think we are doing well in detecting, investigating and responding to ethics violations when they occur.

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  • Author Max Weber
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    The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

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  • Author Max Weber
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    The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

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  • Author Oscar Wilde
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    Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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  • Author Oscar Wilde
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    Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

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