Top Ethics Quotes Collection
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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.Collection: Ethics
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.Collection: Ethics
If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.Collection: Ethics
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.Collection: Ethics
Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.Collection: Ethics
There is no spirituality without ethicsCollection: Ethics
Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneselfCollection: Ethics
Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.Collection: Ethics
Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.Collection: Ethics
Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.Collection: Ethics
Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.Collection: Ethics
Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.Collection: Ethics
Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.Collection: Ethics
Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.Collection: Ethics
The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.Collection: Ethics
Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.Collection: Ethics
Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.Collection: Ethics
Ethics is inescapable.Collection: Ethics
Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.Collection: Ethics
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.Collection: Ethics
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.Collection: Ethics
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.Collection: Ethics
Morality is not respectability.Collection: Ethics
That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.Collection: Ethics
Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.Collection: Ethics
Ethics and aesthetics are one.Collection: Ethics
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.Collection: Ethics
There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank.Collection: Ethics
To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.Collection: Ethics
Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.Collection: Ethics
Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.Collection: Ethics
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.Collection: Ethics
I'm not much into rear window ethics.Collection: Ethics
Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.Collection: Ethics
The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.Collection: Ethics
Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.Collection: Ethics
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.Collection: Ethics
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.Collection: Ethics
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.Collection: Ethics
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.Collection: Ethics
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.Collection: Ethics
Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.Collection: Ethics