Quotes on ethics
Also in Cosmic Religion
Lawrence, D.H.
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
Einstein, Albert
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
Dyer, Wayne
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.
Author, Unknown
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd
Author, Unknown
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
Einstein, Albert
For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
Brodsky, Joseph
If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear.
Schloerb, Rolland W.
Translated by Lydia Davis and published in volume 1 ???Ethics??? of ???Essential Works of Foucault???, The New Press 1997. Copyright Paul Rabinow
Frost, Robert
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
Schweitzer, Albert
"Ethics change with technology." - Larry Niven
Author, Unknown
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
Barlow, John Perry
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge i
Johnson, Samuel
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.
Author, Unknown
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.
Barlow, John Perry
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics I refer to the infinite.
Borges, Jorge Luis