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• The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Ethics, Solidarity

• Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Tags in Ethics

• Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ethics, Else

• I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ethics, Compassion, Reverent, Foundation

• Integrity has no need of rules.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Integrity, Character, Miscellaneous

• A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Character

• All mankind lives and each man strives by codes of conduct mutually agreed. Perhaps these codes are good, perhaps they’re bad, it’s only evident they’re codes. Mores bind the race. Coaction then occurs. Thought and motion in accord. A oneness then of purpose and survival so results. But now against that code there is transgression. And so because the code was held, whatever code it was, and man sought comfort in man’s company, he held back his deed and so entered then the bourne in which no being laughs or has a freedom in his heart.

  L Ron Hubbard

  Topics in Honesty

  Tags in Ethics, Crime

• Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

  Ville Valo

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Ethics, School

• Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

  Valdemar W Setzer

  Tags in Ethics

• Never let a sense of what is right blind you to what is true.

  Scott Allen

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Ethics, Morality, Right

• To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

  Barbara Ward

  Tags in Ethics, Morality

• I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor’s office that I didn’t believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

  Sarah Palin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Reform, Office

• What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Tags in Ethics, Morality

• Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

  William Butler Yeats

  Tags in Ethics, Morality

• Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Tags in Ethics

• The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

  Zig Ziglar

  Tags in Ethics

• He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Ethics, Busyness

• The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

  Origen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Origen, Choice, Choosing

• The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

  William Ralph Inge

  Topics in Education, Knowledge

  Tags in Ethics, Values, Facts

• Always do right–this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Advice, Expectations

  Tags in Ethics