Quotes About Ethics

A central tenet of academic freedom is that a scholar's academic work and politics are separate and distinct from each other.

Had David Irving been the defendant in a case seeking to censor his lies, and had he lost, it might be argued that the loss compromised principles of free speech. But Irving was the plaintiff here. It was he who was trying to censor Lipstadt's truth by suing her for defamation.

As Abraham Lincoln reportedly put it, "nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

If you only behave because an invisible man in the sky is watching, then you don't own your own moral structure. Your moral framework is based outside yourself, separate from your reasoning.

We use God to justify our actions when in fact it is our own instinct for survival that pushes us on.

Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers. —CONFUCIUS

We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I'm not gonna crush that part," Nucatola tells actors posing as organ traffickers. "I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact."

Don't be a boss basher. One day you may be the boss. Don't be a company basher. If the company is so bad, why

Be humble. Don't brag about your position, possessions, people you know, or places you've traveled. Humility tops the chart as the most admired character trait. Pride and arrogance are the most detestable.

Sometimes it's best to do what feels safe, and sometimes it's better to do what you know is right, even though the cost may be high.

There is no stricter moralist than Fear; and no moralist is a stranger to Fear.

He was so certain it was the right thing to do. And we all know, don't we, gentlemen, of the deadliness of righteous men?

Robert C. Winthrop says: "Professed patriotism may be made the cover for a multitude of sins.

I wasn't vegetarian yet -- I was young and my conscience still under construction. (Kelly Johnson)

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

Education that gives priority to measurement rather than values, to efficiency rather than conscience, to information rather than ethics, provides no barrier to barbarity and violence. The Holocaust was perpetrated by a society of the most disciplined, highly educated people on earth.

If we examine with clear eyes what we have done to the majority of people on earth, to the earth itself, and to all other forms of life thereon, we can only hope that there are no gods, or if there are, that they are not just.

The ultimate profanity is to invoke any deity in support of death or destruction in any form, particularly war.

Mau manusia mau ET, saya rasa itu hukum universal. Intention speaks louder than any code.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of regeneration of individuality, liberty, community and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another and with the divine intelligence such as the world has always dreamed.

Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were. There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question.

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

You must also discard fixed judgments about high and low, good and evil, holy and profane.

Selfishness is not an option, even when it comes to a cell's own survival.