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Quotes About Ethics

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.
~ George Stephenson
You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.
~ Kenneth Rexroth
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
~ Theodore Parker
To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.
~ Tibor Kalman
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.
~ Sam Altman
From experience I can say that we can make our nation corruption free. Only promises won't help...Irade Nek Hone Chahiye.
~ Narendra Modi
The pain is not about having cheap people around…. real pain is the fact that there are some people with a price to start with.
~ Sameh Elsayed
I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.
~ Anita Hill
To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
~ Plutarch
I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.
~ Charlie Munger
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.
~ Sally Satel
The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
~ Don Nickles
In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.
~ E. O. Wilson
Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.
~ Imran Khan
If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.
~ George Takei
Even if one is not hungry and although eat is called HumanBeing Even though one is hungry and although does not eat is HumanBeing
~ Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.
~ Rick Santorum
If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.
~ Miroslav Volf
Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.
~ Barack Obama
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
~ Eric Hoffer