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The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

Quotes by John Scott

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.

Quotes by John Perry Barlow

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.

Quotes by John Perry Barlow

Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.

Quotes by John Cornwell

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

Quotes by John Cena

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

Quotes by Jo Ann Davis

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

Quotes by Jello Biafra

Great people have great values and great ethics.

Quotes by Jeffrey Gitomer

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.

Quotes by Jeb Bradley

I'm interested in institutions, particularly in the way institutions close ranks. They have hierarchies and their own ethics.

Quotes by Jed Mercurio

In 2003, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a year later, a national ethics committee in France, said that face transplantation would be going too far. The risk of complication would far outweigh the benefits.

Quotes by Jeanne Marie Laskas

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

Quotes by Jane Mayer

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Quotes by Jane Addams

While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.

Quotes by Jamshyd Godrej

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

Quotes by James Mercer

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Quotes by James MacGregor Burns

Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

Quotes by Jamais Cascio

Muslims around the world deserve to see birthplace of Islam represent the ethics of Islam.

Quotes by Jamal Khashoggi

I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.

Quotes by Jack Scalia

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Quotes by Irving Babbitt

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Quotes by Immanuel Kant

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.

Quotes by Huston Smith

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

Quotes by Henry Miller

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Quotes by Henry Paulson

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance.

Quotes by Henry Giroux

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

Quotes by Harry Reid

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.

Quotes by Hailey Gates

We are going to have to have different ethics for different artificially intelligent machines. You obviously want a different set of ethics for a military artificially intelligent machine or robot than you have for a care-taking robot.

Quotes by Gray Scott

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

Quotes by Grace Slick

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

Quotes by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

Quotes by Friedrich Schleiermacher

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

Quotes by Frederick Pollock

For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.

Quotes by Frank Rich

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

Quotes by Frances Wright

When a person from a community goes and buys a car, he or she should have the incentive, financial incentive, to buy a more efficient, more environment-friendly car. This shouldn't be only left to the intention of the people. We cannot only rely on the ethics or the moral of the people.

Quotes by Fatih Birol

Hillary Clinton is a corrupt career politician who has recklessly handled classified information in an attempt to avoid accountability and put American lives at risk, including those of my former colleagues. She fails the basic tests of judgment and ethics any candidate for president must meet.

Quotes by Evan McMullin

We have really good parents, and even though they broke up when we were little, we were still raised by two people who had really good ethics. They were never going to let us turn into Paris Hilton. I think that it wasn't really an option to become spoiled brats.

Quotes by Erin Foster

Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.

Quotes by Ephraim Mirvis

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

Quotes by Enid Blyton

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Quotes by Emily Post

Whenever I ask Siri for directions or a recommendation, I also ask her a trick question. Her answers are usually wacky. She scolds me for cursing, which I love, but she has no problem with ethics. If I say, 'Remind me to rob a bank at 3 P.M.,' she responds, 'Here's your reminder for today at 3 P.M.: Rob a bank. Shall I create it?'

Quotes by Elizabeth Diller

I think that documentaries are bound by journalistic ethics, and I think they have the pressure of trying to entertain someone for 90 minutes. It's hard, but it's the same question no matter what you're doing. Every film I've done, I've approached it the same way with the same level of respect.

Quotes by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

Quotes by Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Quotes by Earl Warren

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.

Quotes by E. O. Wilson

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

Quotes by Duff Goldman

When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?

Quotes by Deborah Tannen

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

Quotes by David E. Kelley

I have an ethics background. It doesn't mean you're perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in D.C. that's based on ethics and first principles and political philosophy, and not this constant bickering of, 'Are you Right or Left?'

Quotes by Dave Brat

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

Quotes by Dave Brat

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

Quotes by Dan Barber

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.

Quotes by Creighton Abrams

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

Quotes by Corin Nemec

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

Quotes by Corliss Lamont

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

Quotes by Christopher Dawson

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

Quotes by Christian Bale

Everything I have done in the private sector has been through an ethics review point by point by point, and I have been given a clean bill of health by Ethics from the day I walked in the door, including my involvement with Innate Immunotherapeutics and my position on the board.

Quotes by Chris Collins

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Quotes by Chris Bell

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

Quotes by Chris Bell

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.

Quotes by Carroll Quigley

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

Quotes by Carol P. Christ

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

Carl Sandburg

I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.

Quotes by Brunello Cucinelli

Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.

Quotes by Brendan I. Koerner

Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.

Quotes by Bob Beckel

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Quotes by Bille August

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

Quotes by Bill Moyers

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.'

Quotes by Bill Dedman

I had parents who taught me ethics that I didn't know they were teaching me at the time.

Quotes by Bill Duke

Grub first, then ethics.

Quotes by Bertolt Brecht

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Quotes by Bertrand Russell

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Quotes by Ben Carson

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

Quotes by Barney Frank

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Quotes by Barney Frank

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Quotes by Ayn Rand

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Quotes by Arthur Keith

The Trump administration has struggled with ethics vetting for Cabinet nominees and faced criticism for the president's decision to remain invested in his business empire.

Quotes by Ari Melber

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

Quotes by Antoine Fuqua

I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.

Quotes by Angie Harmon

In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'

Quotes by Amanda Schull

I think my favorite role was playing Sarah Baker in 'Cheaper by the Dozen 1.' It was my first movie, and I worked with amazing professionals who had such strong work ethics that I immediately learned how to work in this industry.

Quotes by Alyson Stoner

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

Quotes by Alva Myrdal

A starry sky is equally interesting to a scientist, a mystic, an ethics scholar, and a poet. Looking at the stars, each experiences something different, and each sees his own picture.

Quotes by Alija Izetbegovic

The best cinema is about ethics.

Quotes by Alexander Payne

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Albert Camus

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.

Albert Einstein

Ethics to me is very important.

Quotes by Al-Waleed bin Talal

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.

Quotes by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

Quotes by Adam Michnik

The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

Quotes by Adam Michnik

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

Quotes by Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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