Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows.
I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
No one is happy unless he respects himself.
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker. . . there is no escape. . . people drag others or lift others up.
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would. . . have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
Great people have great values and great ethics.
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.
Yes I pay taxes. . . There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic. '
Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.