Quotes and Sayings About Ethical
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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.
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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 PanshinSource : Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket
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I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.
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If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.
-- D.B.C. PierreSource : DBC Pierre (2007). “Ludmila's Broken English: A Novel”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company
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We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.
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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 BellSource : Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.37, A&C Black
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With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible.
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Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga
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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 SchleiermacherSource : Friedrich Schleiermacher (1836). “Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato”, p.173
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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 SteinerSource : Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.122, Columbia University Press
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Buddhism’s cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.
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It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.
-- Grigori PerelmanSource : "Manifold Destiny". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.
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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 BabbittSource : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.139, Transaction Publishers
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The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.
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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 AristideSource : Jean-Bertrand Aristide (2000). “Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization”
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In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
-- Jerry PournelleSource : "Lucifer's Hammer". Book by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, 1977.
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To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
-- Joan Didion