Top 1200 Ethical Questions Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

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.

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

Political scientists don't work at banks which is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks are asked all sorts of questions they don't have the ability to answer. And if you're getting paid to answer questions as analysts at banks are you never want to be in the position of saying you don't know.

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

Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system that insists that the questions the scientific method can answer are the most important questions human beings can ask, and that the picture of the world yielded by science is a better approximation to reality than any other.

I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.

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

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

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

When Wikileaks comes out, which I have nothing to do with, they're giving classified information. They're giving information about Hillary [Clinton] cheating on the debates. No one mentions that Hillary received the questions to the debates. Seriously, can you imagine if I received the questions? It would be the electric chair, ok?

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

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

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.

I believe in the power of a positive, high-performance culture, which begins with strong ethical values at the core.

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

I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people.

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

I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

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

What are we doing to make sure that people don't get the debate questions ahead of time - because I can tell you this: if my boss at the time, Reince Priebus, had gotten the debate questions, and handed them off, he would have been driven out of this town on a stake, and Donald Trump would have been vilified.

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

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

I think there are still unanswered questions about Benghazi. I think there are unanswered questions, and they could be easily answered. But I think they need to be answered.

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

It is not a coincidence that we have managed to send rockets into space, but our literacy rate continues to be below the world average. It is because governments don't want an educated electorate. Because if we get educated, we will start asking the right questions. And they don't want the right questions being asked.

People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions. Bob Shaw has observed that the deadliest questions usually come as a pair: "Have you published anything?" - loosely translated as: I've never heard of you - and "What name do you write under?" - loosely translatable as: I've definitely never heard of you.

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

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

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.

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.

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

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.

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

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

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path.’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

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

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

If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely.

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

This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? These questions had me unsettled.

Many people operate as though the definition of faith were, Don't ask questions, just believe. They quote Jesus himself, who taught his followers to have the faith of a child (Mark 10:15). But I once heard Francis Schaeffer respond by saying, "Don't you realize how many questions children ask?"

I'll always miss Mad Men, of course, but it is interesting to finally answer different questions after nine years. Not that that's a criticism to anyone, but just simply as a character for nine years, you're going to get a lot of the same questions for many, many, many years. This is sort of refreshing.

Why am I doing the work I'm doing? Why am I friends with this person? Am I living the best life I possibly can? Questions are often looked upon as questions of doubt but I don't see it that way at all. I question things to stay present, to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

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.

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

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.

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

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it's the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely.

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

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

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

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