Ethical quotes
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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
-- Alan Lightman -
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
-- Aldo Leopold -
We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.
-- Alexei Panshin -
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.
-- Arthur Koestler -
If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.
-- D.B.C. Pierre -
We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.
-- David E. Kelley -
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All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.
-- Derrick Bell -
With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible.
-- Dharma Mittra -
Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga
-- Dharma Mittra -
It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.
-- Edward Tufte -
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You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky -
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
-- Felix Adler -
If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members
-- Francis Fukuyama -
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side
-- Francis Parker Yockey -
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For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.
-- Friedrich Schleiermacher -
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.
-- Gao Xingjian -
Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.
-- Gary L. Francione -
To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.
-- Gary Steiner -
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Buddhism’s cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.
-- Gil Fronsdal -
It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.
-- Grigori Perelman -
Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.
-- Harvey Mackay -
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
-- Hugo Ball -
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
-- Ingrid Newkirk -
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
-- Irving Babbitt -
The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.
-- Ivan Illich -
We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.
-- Jean-Bertrand Aristide -
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In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
-- Jerry Pournelle -
To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
-- Joan Didion -
For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.
-- John Kinsella -
Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
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There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.
-- Jordan Belfort -
Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.
-- Karl Brandt -
There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
-- Lafcadio Hearn -
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Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
-- Lee R. Raymond -
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
-- Louis Kronenberger -
I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.
-- Luc Montagnier -
Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior
-- Manmohan Singh -
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Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
-- Mark Buchanan -
I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.
-- Mary Parker Follett -
All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
-- Max Born -
The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.
-- Michael Greger -
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The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.
-- Michael Josephson -
I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.
-- Mike Quigley -
As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.
-- Patrick Carney -
The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.
-- Patti Davis -
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We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
-- Peter Singer -
If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. … If we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little.
-- Peter Singer -
Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.
-- Price Pritchett -
Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
-- Robert K. Greenleaf -
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Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
-- Robert Motherwell -
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
-- Robert Sheckley -
The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.
-- Slavoj Žižek -
Enjoy your work and have ethical standards.
-- Walter Schloss -
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Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.
-- William E. Simon -
Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
-- William Fleming -
For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.
-- Cathy O'Neil -
Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.
-- Dale Jamieson -
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There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.
-- John J. Mack -
I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.
-- Philip Kitcher -
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.
-- Philip Kitcher -
The permaculture's whole principle of having to work with nature, rather than fight against it, is not just an ethical restraint. It's also about realizing you're not the one in control. Nature is not only a nurturer but also a great destroyer.
-- David Holmgren -
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I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.
-- Trevor Paglen
