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

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
B. R. Ambedkar

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.
Bob Riley

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
Irving Babbitt

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Addams

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.
Jo Ann Davis

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.
Peter Singer

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
Lafcadio Hearn

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
Hugo Chavez

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
James MacGregor Burns

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.
Jane Mayer

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
David Herbert Lawrence

Ethics in government has always been important to me.
Chris Bell

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Potter Stewart

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Albert Schweitzer

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
Ville Valo

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand

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