~ 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. ~
~ Relativity applies to physics, not ethics ~
~ A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. ~
~ 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. ~
~ Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right ~
~ Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country ~
~ Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. ~
~ ...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. ~
~ Ethical living is the indispensable condition of all that is most worthwhile in the world. ~
~ 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. ~
~ Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong. ~