Best 137 quotes in «ethical quotes» category

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

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.

The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

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.

There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

The Six Faces of the future are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

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.

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

This 'double ethical bind' we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

We have all been brought up with an ethical system of 2,000 years ago, an industrial-managerial system of 200-300 years ago, a statecraft system of 200 years ago, and so on. None of this is working very well for the requirements of a time as complex and variegated as our own. So we stand shuttering at the threshold, with no clear map.

We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Without getting into brothels, there are ethical capitalists the problem is that there aren't enough of them. It is not "just a few bad apples" that have been evident in our corporations, our investment bankers and our mutual funds, but so many that one has to concede that the barrel itself needs some work.

Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

As the savage progresses, he acquires experience and formulates codes of 'right' and 'wrong' from his memories of those courses which have helped or hurt him... Then out of the principle of barter comes the illusion of 'justice' ...

Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.

Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.

Ethics are not always ethical just as morals are not always moral.

Even in the West, moreover, although the ethical ideal has been absolute monogamy, the legal norm has been merely relative monogamy, which is also known as successive polygamy.

Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury.

If others benefit through you getting what you desire most, it will have a positive impact on the world and only then will every atom of your being work with the universe to help it come into fruition.

It is up to the individual to 'choose' their repertoire of the self. If they do not have access to the range of narratives and discourses for the production of the ethical self they may be held responsible for choosing badly, an irresponsible production of themselves

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

[A]lles ist moralisch, aber die Moral selbst ist nicht moralisch!

Crime exists because immorality is wicked and morality is weak.

Honest man get hated but he never get doubted.

In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other tribes could be robbed or killed as one pleased. Gradually the circle of protection expanded, but as recently as 150 years ago we did not include blacks. So African human beings could be captured, shipped to America, and sold. In Australia white settlers regarded Aborigines as a pest and hunted them down, much as kangaroos are hunted down today. Just as we have progressed beyond the blatantly racist ethic of the era of slavery and colonialism, so we must now progress beyond the speciesist ethic of the era of factory farming, of the use of animals as mere research tools, of whaling, seal hunting, kangaroo slaughter, and the destruction of wilderness. We must take the final step in expanding the circle of ethics. -

In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of Greek mythology), that great Excalibur which they had forged with infinite pains and skill—the method of allegorical interpretation. This mighty 'two-handed engine at the door' of the theologian is warranted to make a speedy end of any and every moral or intellectual difficulty, by showing that, taken allegorically or, as it is otherwise said, 'poetically' or, 'in a spiritual sense,' the plainest words mean whatever a pious interpreter desires they should mean.

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.