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Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.
Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
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.
I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.
Trump is a dust storm of lies and diversions with the bellows of a bully and the greasy ethics of a street-corner hustler.
Work ethic = dreams! That to me is that no one gets a free ride. You have to work for it and it doesn't get handed to you.
We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
I grew up in Illinois, went out east to school, and went back to Illinois to teach... Illinois is a great state for ethics.
The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.
I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.
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.
I'm interested in institutions, particularly in the way institutions close ranks. They have hierarchies and their own ethics.
Ethics knows no party. Those rules should be applied the same in a Republican administration and a Democratic administration.
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.
The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
I am releasing a comprehensive ethics plan because our people should be able to trust that their government is working for them.
It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.
All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.
You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.
I strongly believe in work ethics and when certain people do not follow the procedures, I'd rather step back and weigh my options.
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.
The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.
There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.
If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people
As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.
The goal of embodying Christian ethics - if you want to call yourself a Christian - is being patient and loving with your neighbor.
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.