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Quotes About Ethics

Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.
~ John Maxwell Hamilton
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
~ John Milton
You may sell your work, but not your soul.
~ John Ruskin
Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.
~ John Thorn
Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.
~ Jon Tester
I think what we need to do is we need to seek some other way in which to do what is potentially good work by Google. Google has made the world a better place in some ways.
~ Jonathon Keats
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
~ Joseph Joubert
How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.
~ Judd Gregg
Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!
~ Kathy Ireland
A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal-interest.
~ Khem Veasna
The world is ashamed of being virtuous.
~ Laurence Sterne
We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.
~ Lily Tomlin
Politics is the art of making civilization work.
~ Louis L'Amour
Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.
~ Lynne Stewart
God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I don't want to do something just for money or fame; I have to enjoy working on it! If I start to work for everyone and everything, I could not look at myself in the mirror again.
~ Marilou
We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
~ Martin Luther
I may be a little old-fashioned, but I actually believe that if you live and work in our house and you work on our payroll and you take oaths, then integrity matters in elections.
~ Matthew Dowd
Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.
~ Meg Greenfield
Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even yet agree on what their laws should be.
~ Melinda Gates