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QUOTES including the word: "ethic"

Brecht:
  • First comes a full stomach, then comes ethics.

  • Immanuel Kant:
  • 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.

  • Albert Camus:
  • A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

  • Handel:
  • Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right — two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

  • Patrick Hearn:
  • Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

  • 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.

  • Lawrence:
  • Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  • W. Burroughs:
  • The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.