Top 1200 Ethical Questions Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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

The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try to answer them. When they are about me, I may answer or I may not, but even if I do, if the same question is asked tomorrow, the answer may be different.

When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew.

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

Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change things. What can I do?" I never hear these questions from peasants in southern Colombia or Kurds in southeastern Turkey under miserable repression or anybody who is suffering. They don't ask what they can do; they tell you what they're doing.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

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

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

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

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

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

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

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

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

Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two questions - namely, what is your motive for giving it, and what is it likely to be worth? If these questions were always asked, and honestly answered, there would be less advice given.

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

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

There's a shift of these young artists who have been brought up, educated, with these media around them. If you have a question, if you have a doubt, you go to the Internet, for example. And you will get thousands of answers to your questions. All of this will proliferate more kinds of questions and more kinds of answers.

Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.

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

When I start a movie, I already feel like I'm in it. I'm not a jobbing actor anymore; most of the films I do, I'm involved with development. Some, I've taken from scratch, and worked so heavily on the script, I'm embodying a lot of the character by the time I even get close to filming, because I've asked so many of the questions that I do. There is nothing better than being able to ask all the questions, do all the work. It's when you let it go that you fly.

The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.

To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

We are fighting corruption and all illegal activities and building a culture of transparency and ethical governance.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe' or to anything? Has it any reference to electricity? or does it stand on the very foundation of matter-mass or inertia? then we feel the need of tests, whether they be comets or nebulae or laboratory experiments or bold questions as to the truth of received opinions.

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And, 'Who's in charge?' Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.

I often pose questions to myself and want the answers. The questions may be psychological or emotional. Or they may involve botany or [...] physiology. [...] I am very curious about strangers I observe - as in a bus line. I am very attached to finding out answers.

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

The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions.

No space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great questions: How Come the Universe, How Come Us, How Come Anything? But happily also we have around the answer to these questions. That's us.

There has been so many good questions, like, When a bad play happens in a match, how do you not mentally go down?' Or, How have you had your career last for so long?' There have been a lot of intriguing questions, which has led to a lot of other good conversations.

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

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

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

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

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.

If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.

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

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

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

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

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

Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.

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

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

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

I used to love to come to the ballpark. Now I hate it. Every day becomes a little tougher because of all this. Writers, tape recorders, microphones, cameras, questions and more questions. Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one. I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

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

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

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

Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?

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