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• In the industry, you do need some ethics if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottom line is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.

  Ajay Devgan

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• Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior,

  Martha Nussbaum

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• The best cinema is about ethics.

  Alexander Payne

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• I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

  Sharad Pawar

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• In just about every area of society, there’s nothing more important than ethics.

  Henry Paulson

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• What men do matters more than what they know.

  John Christopher

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• Ethics is not about the way things are, it’s about the way they ought to be.

  Michael Josephson

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• Ethics is not a description of what people do; it’s a prescription for what we all should do.

  Michael Josephson

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• Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

  Jed Rubenfeld

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  Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

  Linus Pauling

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  Good people don’t need laws to tell them to act responsibly and bad people will find a way around the laws.

  Plato

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• So I think ethics is the broader thing that’s less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

  Peter Albert David Singer

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• We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

  Peter Albert David Singer

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• 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 rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

  Omar Nelson Bradley

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• I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever — on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country — vote Republican.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

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• The Roots of Violence:
  Wealth without work,
  Pleasure without conscience,
  Knowledge without character,
  Commerce without morality,
  Science without humanity,
  Worship without sacrifice,
  Politics without principles.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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• All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

  Beatrix Potter

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• The world is well supplied with rude people spouting high moral positions about human rights, but it is noticeably lacking in those who worry about the human being waiting in line behind them at the automated-teller machine while they balance their heckbooks.

  Owen Edwards

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• Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.

  Immanuel Kant

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• There is ….but one categorical imperative, namely, this: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

  Immanuel Kant

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