Top 1200 Ethical Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.

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

I think you can blame certain police officers for certain behavior, you can blame certain departments for certain behavior, and power and so forth, but, ultimately, I'd say it's about us, and it's about society, and I say - even if its sounds a little controversial - put the police aside for a second. It's really not about them. It's about the game that's been created to keep the status quo going and to let the people who own it all gain from the game.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.

As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.

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.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others witness their criminal behavior. Such behavior may not be dealt with by courts in history, but will be dealt with by God, either in history (e.g., AIDS) or eternity. The law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectually drives the perversion of homosexuality underground, back to the closet, to the dark realm of shameful activity.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

I tell the truth where it's the ethical thing to do, but in terms of entertainment, there's a certain fun and enjoyment that can be added to the experience by a few judicious lies.

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his past. He forms himself by a series of denials and refusals, but he continues to be haunted by the realities that he has refused and denied. To acquire a world of his own, he has desacralized the world in which his ancestors lived; but to do so he has been obliged to adopt an earlier type of behavior, and that behavior is still emotionally present in him, in one form or another, ready to be reactualized in his deepest being.

Intuitive Eaters march to their inner hunger signals, and eat whatever they choose without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma.

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the information, they will make better ethical choices.

A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

For a very long time, people have been saying to me, "What if you want to do this approach with every kid?" For a behaviorally challenging kid, you're parenting this way just to help bring the kid's behavior under control and to greatly reduce conflict. But you want to teach all kids the skills that are on the better side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one's behavior is affecting other people, resolving disagreements in ways that do not involve conflict, taking another's perspective, honesty.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.

Integrity and being ethical is one of Affectiva's core values. This means we hold the highest standards for all we do, especially in our science and products.

Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.

Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.

Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.

Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.

My personal code of conduct and compliance with a wide range of government ethics provisions have ensured that I have maintained ethical standards.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.

The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.

SETH said: The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and layers of official beliefs, so you are dealing with an archeology of beliefs to find the person who creates beliefs to begin with. As I have said often, evidence of clairvoyance, telepathy, or whatever, are not eccentric, isolated instances occurring in man's experience, but are representative of natural patterns of everyday behavior that become invisible in your world because of the official picture of behavior and reality.

It is important to recognise that, alongside the huge benefits that artificial intelligence offers, there are potential ethical issues associated with some uses.

My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.

No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.

Don't even get me started. I'm not against all vegetarians. But if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm.

Culture in general wants to connect ethical issues with consumerism. And we can see that overflowing into something that is consumed so much, which is sports.

You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.

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.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.

I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.