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I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.
We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.
I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.
We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.
English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.
The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.
Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.
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.
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.
I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.
Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.
I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.
I want to be proud of this country, but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them.
More than any other super-hero, 'Spider-Man' presents us with something very local in its ethics. It's not messianic. It's far more tangible.
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.
GamerGate-promoted outlets fail at grown-up journalistic ethics, and they also fail at the cheap knockoff brand of GamerGate brand ethics, too.
We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.
I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
Balance is always tough with the kind of shows and my work ethic and all of that, but that definitely helps me do what I do in the big picture.
The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.
At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.'
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.
Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.
I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's decisions.
I want to better myself with every film. My goal is to be at the highest level someday, and I know I will get there, too. I have strong work ethics.
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got a really big problem.
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.
Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!