Top 1161 Ethical Dilemmas Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of the universe that still resonates. The whole idea of order and chaos, which is really central to the ancient Egyptian understanding of the world, is still very much with us.

Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

You must have anger, as rightful wrath is what makes you create your own ethical standards.

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

Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

The ethical code of my upbringing was be good to people and try not to hurt them. You don't need a god to tell you that.

When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.

The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.

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

There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

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

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

I think people crave those meaningful situations, stuff about faith, identity, dilemmas of live paradoxes in our souls. It's going back to a time where lives were really defined by history, and also how you behave in the face of history. It's kind of interesting to go back to that simpler humanity, simpler but deeper.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

It feels like every person is using their whole brain and heart to figure out these nearly impossible dilemmas about how we do our work, with our principles, in the current conditions. And it feels like the thing we know to be true about working collectively - that we have better ideas together than we do individually.

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

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

Even if we wanted to imbue an autonomous vehicle with an ethical engine, we don't have the technical capability today to do so.

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

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.

Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

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

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

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.

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

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

I always turn to Wendy Williams when there's any type of ethical or moral crisis in our country.

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

Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.

Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the 'Catholic Herald.'

Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

I don't use any animal products, both because of ethical and environmental and climate reasons.

Nothing kills a CEO's credibility faster than legal, regulatory, and/or ethical questions.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

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

Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that certain dilemmas will never resolve themselves into some kind of a complete answer. That's why psychedelics are so different from any system being sold, from one of the great elder systems like Christianity, to the latest cult out of Los Angeles.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.