Top 1200 Ethical Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

The one thing I say, I will invest in anything - I don't care what it is - as long as it doesn't cut across my ethical code, because at the end of the day I want to be able to live with myself. I want to feel proud of what I do.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable.

My mind was by no means easy about the need to carry out a clandestine action in the sovereign territory of a friendly country, and the question of whether it was permissible to do so — from both the ethical and political points of view — had to be faced in all its gravity.

'Line Of Duty,' for dramatic purposes, tends to create characters whose corruption is balanced on certain ethical conflicts, whereas the majority of corruption in the real world is simply based on greed.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

The knock on [Chris] Christie was always the I guy that he was - I felt inordinately talented politician, a smart and in some ways very capable human being, with a personality given toward authoritarianism and bullying and ethical corner-cutting.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life is ethical, not mystical. The mystery has gone and society is disintegrating as a result.

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

My roots, in college, were in behavior in the context of evolution.

If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.

There's no woman that's crazy for no reason. That behavior is a reaction. Believe that.

Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Most human beings, there's a spectrum of bad behavior.

The bread and butter of any internet service is user behavior.

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as its ethical standpoint.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so - to 'do unto others.'

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.

No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

President Trump and his family are complying with all the ethical rules, everything they need to do to step away from his businesses and be a full-time president.

The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in order to live, and there is no moral or ethical code that dictates that we should refrain from eating and allow ourselves to die for some higher purpose.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.

I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.