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
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer
Ethical living is the indispensable condition of all that is most worthwhile in the world.
Ernest Caldecott
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Freda Adler
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
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi or Tolstoy
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
Omar Nelson Bradley
Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.
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
You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.
Price Pritchett
But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.
Price Pritchett
Those of you who go along to get along have no backbone and destroy the foundation of courage. You are the enablers of those who are guilty of misconduct. You are just as guilty as those who break the code of ethics and oath you swore.
Christopher Jordan Dorner
The best ethics course is to handcuff one of the bastards.
George Walker Bush
The real task is not to rid life of ethics but to rid ethics of its ideological content.
John Carroll
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge