#ethics

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

— Corliss Lamont

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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year. ↗

— Laura Miller

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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall. ↗

— Laura Miller

#campaign #city #city hall #cleaning #ethics

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. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#come #country #decade #ethics #given

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. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#anchor #any #aspect #character #creating

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. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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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. ↗

— Harry Reid

#change #ethics #get #hearing #house

The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome. ↗

— Adebowale Ojowuro

#ethics-and-moral-philosophy #freethought #new-book #religion #scepticism

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. ↗

— David E. Kelley

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