The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
Ethics Quotes (236 Quotes)
I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.
None of the ethics legislation that's pending would have had any effect on that investigation. We have bribery laws on the books, and it's always been illegal to hand over bags of cash.
gutted the membership of the ethics committee, taking out anyone whom they thought was responsible for the admonishment for Mr. DeLay.
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and thin what we ought to do about it.
Agents have to be very, very careful. If I have a buyer client and I'm showing them houses that I would get extra money for, they could question that because it is a conflict of interest. There's a potential code of ethics problem and a potential disclosure problem with your clients if you don't do it correctly.
Ethics laws in this state are weak.
In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.
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.
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.
Most of these accusations by the Ethics Commission are a direct result of failing to maintain proper record keeping.
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Fair play should be a minimal expectation, and the ethics truce prevented Congress from meeting even that low standard.
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
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.
The House has completely abdicated its constitutional responsibility to police itself. There is still no member of Congress, in either party, willing to file an ethics complaint.
Whenever I'm not sure about something, the ethics of something, the question I ask myself is, 'What would Murrow have done What would Murrow say' It seems strange after all these years that I still have him as a kind of symbol and an emblem to live by, but I do.
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.
You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.Civilization and Ethics, 1949
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.
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
We're having an ethics session in the first place because of these folks that got in trouble.
Forrester wanted to be seen as the candidate of ethics reform. I think that's slipped away.
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Wth a labour Government, the chairpersons codes of ethics would be improved to avoid conflict of interests while a Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards would be chosen by Parliament to monitor the works of Member of Parliaments, including ministers and the Prime Minister.
I think the Ethics Commission didn't give proper consideration to the investigation previously done by the deputy city manager, which concluded that he acted within the discretion given to him as chief of police in both instances.
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'm sure of it. There's not been one criminal charge ever on an ethics case, revolving-door ethical violation, anything.
Grub first, then ethics.
If you exchange business ethics for medical ethics, this is the result. One prosecution for insider trading will have more deterrent effect than all the seminars, media reports and policy reforms combined.
A growing number of people may see companies in the private sector as putting profits before people and before ethics,
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has never been a party to an ethics truce and has always said that individual members have the right to file a complaint.
There are about the same number of ethics issues in both parties. But when you're the majority party you get disproportionately more scrutiny.
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
He was the one who started a chain of events that led to DeLay stepping down as house majority leader. He filed the ethics complaint.
He's going to have to abide by the canons of judicial ethics, which basically state you never discuss things which might come up before your court in the future, ... no matter how much they badger him or say they aren't going to vote for him.
Tom DeLay wants to lay out that case. I think our friends on the other side know the only effective way he can do that is if the Ethics Committee does its work,
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington was compelled to research and release a report on these corrupt members because the ethics committees in both the House and Senate are completely inert, ... The report calls for the House and Senate to act to investigate and take appropriate action against them for these violations of the rules.
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
We have far and away the highest standard of ethics rules -- and I won't contend they are the smartest rules -- and they say that, no matter who indicts -- if it is some inconsequential little county attorney anyplace in America, which there are thousands of county attorneys -- anyone of them could produce a charge and an indictment against any one of our leaders, and remove them instantly, ... The Republican leaders will step down.
No matter what level of corruption the members of Congress engage in, the ethics committees do nothing. It's a national embarrassment.
It's always so sad because you love those Horatio Alger stories, and then someone rises up that high and falls so far. Ultimately, this is about ethics, and no amount of drive is going to save you if your ethics are so bad and you're not going to abide by the law.
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.
I'm sorry to see that again we are turning to the courts for decisions that concern ethics. I think theologians and ethicists would better guide us in such matters, ... If my memory serves me well, more than a decade ago The Episcopal Church said euthanasia or the intentional shortening of an individual's life, by lethal doses of drugs or otherwise, was not acceptable.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.