Discontent is the seed of ethics.
All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice.
I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.
Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.
Ethics is for people with full bellies.
I took ethics classes in college, and it always amazes me how they [tabloids] will blatantly say something that I did not say, in quotation marks. The first thing that we learned in ethics is that you better have it right. If you're putting quotation marks around something, it better be exactly what that person said.
Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.
If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.
It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.