Pastoral Resources

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.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

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

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.

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

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

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.

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

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.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

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.

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

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

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

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

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.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

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.