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• All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

  Beatrix Potter

  Topics in Inspirational, Power, Religion

  Tags in Good, Ethics

• Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world — that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me — is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life, Service

  Tags in Good, Ethics, Credo, Creed, Possible

• A Humanist Code of Ethics:

  Do no harm to the earth, she is your mother.

  Being is more important than having.

  Never promote yourself at another’s expense.

  Hold life sacred; treat it with reverence.

  Allow each person the digity of his or her labor.

  Open your home to the wayfarer.

  Be ready to receive your deepest dreams;

  sometimes they are the speech of unblighted conscience.

  Always make restitutions to the ones you have harmed.

  Never think less of yourself than you are.

  Never think that you are more than another.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Reverence, Humanism, Credo, Creed

• The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Ethics, Duty, Law, Creed, Credo

• Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

  Freda Adler

  Topics in Politics, Power

  Tags in Ethics, Philosophy

• The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

  Bille August

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Study

• Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Strangers

• Grub first, then ethics.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics
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  Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Ethics, Wind

• If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don’t hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

  Barney Frank

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Ethics

• I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor’s office that I didn’t believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

  Sarah Palin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Reform, Office
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  A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Character

• Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

  Christopher Dawson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sociology, Ethics

• I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

  Roger Spottiswoode

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Morals

• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Change, Ethics

• Ethics thought out is religious thought; ethics felt out is religious feeling, and ethics lived out is the religious life.

  William Channing Gannett

  Topics in Life, Religion

  Tags in Ethics

• The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

  Richard Curtis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Whether, Ethics, Key
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  There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Thinking

• Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people’s choices are not based on a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world views are available to them. Most are doing the best they can, given what information they’ve received and what problems they are facing.

  Michael Lerner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Understanding, Judgment, Choice, Choosing

• All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

  Theodore Bikel

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Ethics, Arrogance, Strength, Choice, Choosing