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“I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.”

Thinking Way Believe Different Winning Individual I Believe Sports Interest Effort Player Team Football Ethics Connections I Believe In Different Ways Sports Team You Can Win

Author:Arsene Wenger

“Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.”

People Believe Littles Realizing Trust Ethics Gossip Truthfulness Trustworthiness

Author:Rebecca West

“We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.”

People World Way Whole Dies Understanding Ethics Financial Financial System Understanding The World

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

Source: Aphorisms

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!”

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Author:Robin Williams

“We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”

Source: To Green Angel Tower

“I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.”

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Author:E. O. Wilson

“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.”

Choices Growth Accepting Economic Behavior Ethics Environmental Population Economic Growth

Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.”

Way Stills Today School Military Duty Honor Ethics South Loyalty Traditional Upbringing Military School

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.”

“Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.”

Thinking Should Students Taught Ethics Medicine

Author:Robert Winston

“People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.”

People Grew Grew Up Ethics Strongest Work Ethic

Author:Tiger Woods

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.”

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Author:Brigham Young

“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.”

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Book:Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952

Source: Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952

“It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.”

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Author:Julian Baggini

“I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.”

Ifs Sometimes Hard Clear Broken Ethics Importance Absolutes Embrace Glasses Torture Contradiction Prohibition

Author:Julian Baggini

“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”

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Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.”

“I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.”

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Author:Jo Brand

“Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.”

Principles Ethics Annoying

Author:Darby Conley

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”

“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”

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Author:Thornton Wilder

“The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.”

Firsts Looks Moments Helping Ethics Partners Your Best Friend Puritan Friends For Life

Author:J. I. Packer

“Grub first, then ethics.”

Firsts Food Morality Eating Ethics Dignity Cooking Cynicism Altruism

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.”

“Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.”

Ethics Logic Accomplished

Book:Selected Stories

Source: Selected Stories

“If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.”

Ifs Ideas Ends Happens Running Conditions Ethics Core Tales Fairy Nurse Fairy Tale Fairytale Nursery Peace And Happiness Fairytale Ending

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

Heart Trust Ethics Iron Strings Self Reliance Reliance Thyself Transcendental Transcendentalism Vibrate Trustworthiness Trust No One Self Trust

Book:Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842

Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842

“Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.”

Believe Forget Moral Principles Dangerous Politician Ethics Consequence Foundation Karma Believe In God Trust In God Rulers Wise Man Once Said Moral Principles I Believe In Karma

Author:Dalai Lama

“A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.”

Thinking Way Trying Different Seems Age Culture Individual Social Gay Activity Ethics Relation Intense Psychological Visible Mask Yield Traits Homosexual Different Ages

Author:Michel Foucault

“Those who trust us educate us.”

Education Teaching Ethics Educate Fathers Day

Book:Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2

Source: Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2

“We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.”

Giving Doe Done Past Turns Pleasure Grace Gratitude Promise Ethics Delight Driven Contemplating Transforming Debtors Promise Of The Future

Author:John Piper

“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.”

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Book:The periodic table

Source: The periodic table

“A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.”

Men Love Doe Sacrifice Morality Ethics Accounts Forgiving Harm Never Forgive

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”

Inspirational Kind Motivational Kindness Honest Honesty Ethics Silly Being Honest Be Kind Godly Silliness Being Silly

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”

Ifs Inspirational Respect Ethics Oneself Self Respect Respecting Others

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.”

Doe Force Accepting Moral Evolution Ethics Rejecting Constancy

Book:Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

Source: Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

“For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”

Problem Values Freedom Simple Moral Solutions Ethics Neat Problems And Solutions Solution To A Problem Complex Problems Simple Solutions

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”

Justice Powerful Power Trust Forgiveness Ethics Management Punishment Impulse Good And Evil Fairness Distrust Mistrust Crime And Punishment Pharisees Bloodhounds

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates merely ask that we relax our standard of adherence to ancient superstitions and taboos, while otherwise maintaining a belief system that was passed down to us from men and women whose lives were simply ravaged by their basic ignorance about the world.”

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”

Friendship Trust Disease Ethics Tyranny No Friends Prometheus

Author:Aeschylus

“There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.”

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Book:The World As I See It

Source: The World As I See It

“Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.”

Heart May Political Politics Morality Behavior Ethics Judicial Heartless Decree

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

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