Ethics

(145 votes)   I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.

Alvin Burger
American Businessman, Founder of 'Bugs' Burger Bug Killers, Inc.

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(131 votes)   The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

Stephen R. Covey
American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''

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(126 votes)   Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author

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(106 votes)   Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

William E. Gladstone
1809-1888, British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman

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(105 votes)   Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question ''Have we anything to eat?'' will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Hugo Ball
1886-1927, German Dadaist Poet

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(102 votes)   It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

Sir John Harvey
1863-1944, British Actor-Manager

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(101 votes)   I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

George F. Will
1941-, American Political Columnist

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(98 votes)   Actually, there is only one ''first question'' of government, and it is ''How should we live?'' or ''What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?''

George F. Will
1941-, American Political Columnist

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(95 votes)   Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

V. Raymond Edman

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(94 votes)   No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(85 votes)   We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Gary Oldman
1958-, British-born American Actor

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