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  • You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.

    Book   Soul   Ignorant  
  • What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.537, Simon and Schuster
  • What is moral is what you feel good after.

    Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)
  • It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

    Done   Favour   Ethics  
  • You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

    Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.303
  • Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

    "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.
  • Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

    'Rasselas' (1759) ch. 41
  • A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

    Sympathy   God   Death  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books
  • 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 (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”
  • Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

  • There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

    Eight   Class   Ethics  
  • About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

    Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)
  • Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

    Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.30, Open Road Media
  • So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay great heed to every noble, uplifting desire that is in you; but realize that these things alone are not enough, that they will never bring you to the desired place. We have to realize that all our best is totally inadequate, that a spiritual battle must be fought in a spiritual manner.

  • The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

    "Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators" by Dave Stone, (p. 143), 2004.
  • It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

    Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.372, Univ of California Press
  • Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

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

  • I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.39, Princeton University Press
  • Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

    An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895)
  • It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other animals" together beneath us. The resulting "speciesism" allows us to look upon animals as less deserving of all manner of rights and considerations than humans. To support this lower status, humans have argued that animals act instinctually; don't have souls; don't feel physical pain like we do; and lack self-consciousness, cognitive intelligence, emotional feelings, morality, and ethics.

    Pain   Animal   Emotional  
    "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.
  • Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

    Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.48, The Floating Press
  • Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

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

  • To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

    Mean   Greed   Survival  
  • Do the right thing because it is right.

    Immanuel Kant (2005). “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.39, Broadview Press
  • Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

    Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.164, Bertrand Russell
  • Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

    H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

    Thinking   Law   Ethics  
  • You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

    Brave   Ethics   Chance  
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