Top 1200 Ethical Questions Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.

One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that definition, it is exactly the wrong word to describe this chapter. This chapter will make nothing clear; it will raise many questions; and it may even contain a surprise or two. But I say we call it the denouement anyway because the words sounds so sophisticated and French.

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

I believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal.

The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about.

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you've got and enhance it. Any religion you have - they'll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they'll burn up anything that isn't true for you. They'll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting.

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

The real problem is not the existential threat of AI. Instead, it is in the development of ethical AI systems.

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

The reality is that when you're a barrister, you're trained, and you've got ethical structures. You've got to follow the evidence, and that's that.

Systematic theology will ask questions like "What are the attributes of God? What is sin? What does the cross achieve?" Biblical theology tends to ask questions such as "What is the theology of the prophecy of Isaiah? What do we learn from John's Gospel? How does the theme of the temple work itself out across the entire Bible?" Both approaches are legitimate; both are important. They are mutually complementary.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the persuadee.

No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

I realized how little I knew about my own country. I had grown up in the suburbs and, after college, I moved out of the country, so I didn't really know the place well. When I started following soldiers and their families back home, it provoked a lot of the questions about who we are as a nation, questions I realized couldn't be explored through the more limited framework of looking at the military at war and at home.

Gun producer and the killer is the same thing! Be ethical, stop producing guns! Be human, for God's sake, for there shall never be peace of mind for the wicked!

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.

I have always been really picky about the films that I make, because I think that there's such an incredible opportunity to bring up questions when you're making movies, and some of my favorite films bring up big questions. They are movies that, when you walk away from it, it hits you as something deeper, and it's a great, fun way to be able to bounce around some of these harder concepts in our heads.

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

The mainstream press was not aggressive enough after 9/11, was not aggressive enough in asking questions about a decision to go to war in Iraq, was not aggresive enough in asking the hard questions about the War on Terror. I accept that for the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.

By the way, I'm not a vegetarian. I have a lot of respect for people who are vegetarian for religious or ethical reasons.

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

I think the hardest questions had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side

Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I dont know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.

We have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good - always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, 'Don't be evil' seems the easiest way to summarize it.

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.