Top 1200 Ethical Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Children are the ultimate investment of all of those that want to make money, to sell, to dominate. So there are two meanings. They are our ultimate investment for anyone who is honest and ethical and loving, but also for all the commerce.

Criminalizing behavior, if it's part of the heritage of this state, is in my opinion a bad idea.

Lying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who's really into you.

Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.

All employees... deserve to be treated as responsible adults, if that is the behavior we expect of them.

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.

Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

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 violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.

Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.

I would consider my dad a pretty patient guy, but there was no tolerance for spoiled behavior.

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.

The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent.

Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

We the people have the power to decide who we want to see in our advertisements and how we want the world to be portrayed. If we show that being ethical and being diverse is profitable, they're going to market to us.

I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as you do in the Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions, a lot of restrictions saying you can eat this but you can't eat that.

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

Yes, because a vampire slumber party is the pinnacle of safety conscious behavior.

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior

And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this...this--' 'School?

We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's doctrine. Its verdict against Galileo was rational and just.

I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.

People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.

I stand by all the women who have had to deal with inappropriate behavior of any sort.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.