Definition of Ethic

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Definition of Ethic
	Ethic Alt. of Ethical Related Definitions: Alt, Ethical, Of

Ethic Quotations

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
Audrey Hepburn

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
E. O. Wilson

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.
William S. Burroughs

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Umberto Eco

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.
Siobhan Fahey

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Stewart Udall

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
Hans Kung

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
Carrie Fisher

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
David Rockefeller

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.
Vince McMahon

Ethic Translations

ethic in Dutch is ethiek, zedenleer, zedenkunde
ethic in German is ethisch
ethic in Hungarian is etika
ethic in Italian is etico

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