Quotes About Ethic

The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

What you do for money you do badly.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

If you are doing something good, never do it free

In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.

87The Confederacy had become virtually a welfare state ahead of its time, and yet again the antithesis of the hands-off government ethic upon which so much of Southern political and social ideology lay based.

Something for nothing is not to be found on earth.

We have become a civilization based on work—not even "productive work" but work as an end and meaning in itself. We have come to believe that men and women who do not work harder than they wish at jobs they do not particularly enjoy are bad people unworthy of love, care, or assistance from their communities. It is as if we have collectively acquiesced to our own enslavement.

Believers are expected to be involved in what Judaism calls tikkun-ha'olam, repairing the world. Tikkun-ha'olam is deeply embedded in the Jewish ethic; for this reason even secular Jews usually find themselves concerned with bettering society.

Naomi noted in closing that Britain had one of the "most staunchly conservation-oriented publics ... they are strongly antiwhaling ... they are an island nation who feel they must protect the marine environment." Yet there were zero cetacean displays left in the UK. "Clearly they are getting their marine education, their marine ethic, from some other source.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: "Let's roll".

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.