Top Ethics Quotes

Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends the conversation. It cuts off inquiry: not only factual in...

One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things

Ethics Definition

(n.) The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics.

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spir...

Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught

The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally...

No ethical person wants to be a king or a queen, because there is no ethics and honor in putting yourself in a place higher than others!

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Reason forbade me many things which,Instinctively, my nature was attracted to;And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing,I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and reject...

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.

Ethics are the moral compass of a human society that change and adjust over time.

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direct a...

The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what t...

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end leave...

Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through.

Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't e...

A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual. This is due to the fact that, when many people gather together to share one common emotion, the t...

A person who has a criminal mind and would be punished by the referees and they will remain in isolation from others as an opportunity for them to reform. When he or she get released from his or her r...