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Ethics is a major branch of philosophy, encompassing right conduct and good life. It is significantly broader than the common conception of analyzing right and wrong. A central aspect of ethics is "the good life", the life worth living or life that is simply not satisfying, which is held by many philosophers to be more important than moral conduct. Socrates was one of the first Greek philosophers to encourage both scholars and the common citizen to turn their attention from the outside world... full article at wikipedia

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...	Immanuel Kant	Critique of Practical Reason
The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.	Stephen Covey
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.	Ayn Rand
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.	Bertrand Russell
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?	George Will
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.	D. H. Lawrence
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.	William Ewart Gladstone
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.	Oscar Wilde
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.	George Washington
I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.	George Will
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