If your morals make you dreary depend on it they are wrong.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
Morality is not respectability.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
~ H. G. Wells
Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.
~ Peter Lord
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness and every man understands too that it is no proof of greatness.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior.
~ Rick Santorum
We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.
~ Stuart Rose
More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.
~ Simon Mainwaring
The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
~ Huston Smith
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
~ Emily Post
Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.
~ Dan Brown
I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.
~ Angie Harmon
When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.
~ Jonathan Maberry
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
~ Salman Rushdie
As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.
~ Rudy Giuliani
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
~ Wayne Dyer
Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
~ John Knoll
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
~ Louise Slaughter
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
~ James Macgregor Burns
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.
~ Thomas Kean
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.
Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.
Great people have great values and great ethics.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?
~ Deborah Tannen
Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
~ Oscar Wilde
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
~ Bertrand Russell
I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.
~ Steven Seagal
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
~ Ephraim Mirvis
To have a sense of education and ethics is important.
~ Soleil Moon Frye
I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.
~ Sharad Pawar
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
~ D. H. Lawrence
So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.
~ Harry Reid
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.
~ Jamais Cascio
In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
~ Henry Paulson
We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics.
~ Frank Abagnale
