Top 160 Ethics Quotes

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.
Ryan Holiday
One should not treat investors or a person who has set up an industry and is a successful businessman as criminals in this country. I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.
Sharad Pawar
You don’t teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.
Judy Sheindlin
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
D. H. Lawrence
I worry about Google’s data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can’t deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library.
Om Malik
We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
Enid Blyton
I strongly believe in work ethics and when certain people do not follow the procedures, I’d rather step back and weigh my options.
Madhura Naik
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
John Perry Barlow
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental s

Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers – all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.
Jamais Cascio
I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.
Keith Olbermann
Ethics knows no party. Those rules should be applied the same in a Republican administration and a Democratic administration.
Richard Painter
I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.
Taylor Swift
Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.
Ken Cuccinelli
As Americans, we’re not sure we share values. We’re sometimes even afraid to use the word ‘values.’ We talk about teaching ethics in schools – people say, ‘What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can’t.’ And they confuse that with teaching of religion.
Rudy Giuliani
Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.
Sherwin B. Nuland
Even journalism has ethics and everyone should follow them.
Aishwarya R. Dhanush
In every project I do, I’m unwilling to compromise my values and morals and ethics. That’s very important to me.
Kate Gosselin
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
Richard Stallman
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
Roger Mudd
Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon’s involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president.
Ronald Kessler
I think we’ll go through a period when there’s a revival of concern about ethics. After Watergate, we got the Ethics in Government Act, which has a lot of additional regulations.
Richard Painter
When it comes to work ethics and business, I look up to Aziz Ansari. He’s got everything together on his own terms. He does stand-up, comes out with books, and has his own show.
Karan Soni
I’ve got a life that really matters to me, and that’s because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.
Jakob Dylan
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
Carol P. Christ
People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.
Wayne Dyer
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
Leon Kass
My personal code of conduct and compliance with a wide range of government ethics provisions have ensured that I have maintained ethical standards.
Michael Madigan
It’s because I work in ethics, and, more specifically, applied ethics, that I think it’s important that if you have things to say that you think are right and you think could make the world a better place, it’s important that many people read about them.
Peter Singer
If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably – well, I don’t see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.
Frederick Pollock
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Potter Stewart
Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors – we used to call them mercenaries – to do the country’s fighting.
Michael Ignatieff
Hillary Clinton is a corrupt career politician who has recklessly handled classified information in an attempt to avoid accountability and put American lives at risk, including those of my former colleagues. She fails the basic tests of judgment and ethics any candidate for president must meet.
Evan McMullin
My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My mother was a mentor by showing me an example to say that if women have tenacity, they can achieve whatever they have to.
Chanda Kochhar
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
Arthur Keith
As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if they are commercial lies. What we don’t see anymore is ethics.
Haskell Wexler
I take ethics seriously.
Jen Psaki
Within the small crew of people who hold the media’s many ‘NeverTrump’ positions, the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Pete Wehner doesn’t get enough credit for writing the same thing over and over and over and over and over again.
Mollie Hemingway
Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
Lafcadio Hearn
We are going to have to have different ethics for diffe

We are going to have to have different ethics for different artificially intelligent machines. You obviously want a different set of ethics for a military artificially intelligent machine or robot than you have for a care-taking robot.
Gray Scott
I want to better myself with every film. My goal is to be at the highest level someday, and I know I will get there, too. I have strong work ethics.
Tiger Shroff
If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don’t you think it’s a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not ‘honor’ but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
Mercedes Lackey
The goal of embodying Christian ethics – if you want to call yourself a Christian – is being patient and loving with your neighbor.
Julien Baker
Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one – that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.
Ratan Tata
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
B. R. Ambedkar
In medical school, students are immersed in the realm of medical ethics. It’s where new doctors study, learn right and wrong, ask tough questions, and discuss things like end of life care, genetic testing, and patients’ rights. In lots of ways, it’s the most important part of being a compassionate and competent doctor.
Ralph Northam
I’ve played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
Bill Moyers
Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.
Bob Beckel
I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It’s my dream.
Brunello Cucinelli
So I think ethics is the broader thing that’s less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.
Peter Singer
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges
I’m not saying I’m perfect. But I’m someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it’s in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That’s how I’ve been all my life.
Parvathy
That’s a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.
Peter Singer
I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
Ian Anderson
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 first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Addams