Milton Friedman Quotes

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

... consensus on social values is determined less and less by demographic factors.

The laws of a country are a reflection of the values of the people.

I have no objection to the twist as such, but it does represent some kind of change of our standards. What has happened to our concepts of beauty, decency, and morality?

I do my research, and if I'm supporting something, then it's because it aligns with me morally and ethically.

It would be easier for me to reject all established values, if I knew what they were.

We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

I'll never go against my morals.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Ethics is a fluid term ...It's the standards by which a civilized society lives.

How we behave in our public lives inevitably reflects values, attitudes and experiences embedded in our private lives and vice versa.

Protestant Christianity ... tutored the first generations of Americans. It provided what we today would call the value system of the society.

You can tell the values of a nation by its advertisements