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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.
-Hugo Ball
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I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.
-Alvin Burger
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As religion and faith are being driven out of the public square, the Judeo-Christian ethical foundations that have sustained our country since its beginning, are being lost and are being replaced with a humanistic amorality, a self-centered, pragmatic indifference that will ensure that our moral compasses will fail to point us in the right direction in the future.
-Archie B. Carroll
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The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
-Stephen Covey
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Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
-Bob Dole
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
-Wayne Dyer
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Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
-V. Raymond Edman
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education, and social relationships; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Also in Cosmic Religion
-Albert Einstein, "New York Times Magazine", November 9, 1930
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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
-William Ewart Gladstone
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It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
-Sir John Harvey
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The truth is that good ethics sometimes is good business, but sometimes it's not. It depends on one's goals and how one defines good business. Sometimes, good ethics can end in bankruptcy. Of course, so can bad ethics.
A fairer statement is that good ethics can be a very powerful business asset and that good things tend to happen to companies and individuals that consistently do the right thing and bad things tend to happen to those that even occasionally do the wrong thing.
But the crucial point is that the moral obligation to live according to ethical principles is not dependent on whether it's advantageous. People of character do the right thing in the pursuit of virtue, not self-interest.
http://www.josephsoninstitute.org/business-ethics_commentaries.html
-Michael Josephson
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness--a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
-Thomas Babington Macaulay
On Moore's Life of Lord Byron, 1831
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We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.
-Gary Oldman
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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.
-Ayn Rand
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
-Bertrand Russell
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Let me give you one definition of ethics: It is good to maintain life and to further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound, universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
-Albert Schweitzer
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For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
-William Shakespeare
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
-George Washington
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
-Oscar Wilde
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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?
-George Will
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I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.
-George Will
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Books about Ethics
