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~ Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. ~

~ We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards . . . the ethics of excellence. ~

Price Pritchett

~ The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. ~

Jane Addams

~ Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. ~

Jane Addams

~ Relativity applies to physics, not ethics ~

Albert Einstein

~ A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. ~

Albert Camus

~ Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~

Thomas Alva Edison

~ Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right ~

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

~ Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country ~

Elvin Stackman

~ Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. ~

Potter Stewart

~ ...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be. ~

Charles Sanders Peirce

~ In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. ~

Immanuel Kant

~ The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle ~

Albert Einstein

~ Discontent is the seed of ethics. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling. ~

Valdemar W. Setzer

~ Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. ~

Immanuel Kant

~ Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ If a man is good in his heart, then he is an ethical member of any group in society. If he is bad in his heart, he is an unethical member. To me, the ethics of medical practice is as simple as that. ~

Dr. Elmer Hess

~ In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. ~

Earl Warren

~ Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena. ~

H. Jay Dinsah

~ In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of another. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. ~

Immanuel Kant

~ You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics. ~

Massad Ayoob

~ The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap. ~

Price Pritchett

~ Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment. ~

Price Pritchett

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