Ethics are moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity (definition from an online dictionary). Given the utter lack of ethics that abound in American politics at present, I thought some reminders about ethics, in the form of quotations by different individuals, some well-known and some not, would be relevant. Perhaps just reading some of them will re-inspire politicians to want to behave ethically. We need all the help we can get.
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of
solidarity with other human beings. --Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. --Albert
Schweitzer
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. --Albert Schweitzer
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. --Thomas A. Edison
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
--Albert Camus
That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I
owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life?
Those are questions which we face as individuals. --Peter Singer
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not
change with the calendar. --D. H. Lawrence
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a
right to do and what is right to do. --Potter Stewart
Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by,
the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have
always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to
be as fair and equitable as I could be. --Ratan Tata
You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness
in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example. --Judy
Sheindlin
Great people have great values and great ethics. --Jeffrey
Gitomer
