Top 1200 Ethical Questions Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Being human means asking the questions of one's own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question. And, conversely, being human means receiving answers to the questions of one's own being and asking questions under the impact of the answers.

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas.

I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot of questions. I try to visit the area. If I'm not able to do that, I search out people from that country who live elsewhere and ask questions.

As for Hollywood, there was an offer. But I declined to do it because of certain moral and ethical values.

We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

We may still have as many questions after the game as we did before the game. But that's OK. Good teams answer their questions as they go, but they do it with wins. We didn't get it done last week - we found a way to get it done this week.

Active questions are the alternative to passive questions. There is a huge difference between, 'Do you have clear goals?' and 'Did you do your best to set clear goals for yourself?' The former is trying to determine the employee's state of mind; the latter challenges the employee to describe or defend a course of action.

If you can teach your child to be compassionate and to be ethical, you will be the greatest teacher!

In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

When you ask people questions about what they've done, not only do you get knowledge, but they like you because people like to be asked questions about what they've done and talk to someone who's interested in them.

Every day we act in ways that reflect our ethical judgements.

You have to begin by posing questions to your unconscious mind, and then listening very carefully for the answers. If you pose the right kinds of questions, and listen well, you can begin to tap into the power of your unconscious mind.

I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations and dialogues. I finally began clustering them in these different categories, and I ended up with the ones you listed.It's interesting to me the kinds of questions I haven't been called to wrestle with. For example, I don't know what this says, but I'm not asked a lot of political questions.

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland.

Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.

For decades, the pro-life movement has focused on scientific evidence and ethical arguments.

Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.

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

I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

I read all of the stories that people write about me. The ones that are really interesting are the ones where they actually write their take on me as opposed to just printing what I said, because they're asking similar questions so often, sometimes it just sounds like I'm answering the questions different intentionally.

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.

There really is no ethical difference between eating a cat or a chicken, a dog or a pig.

We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.

The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.

Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk to Ali, to get advice from Muhammad Ali, was privileged. He's always given me time to ask questions, although I was so in awe that I didn't ask questions.

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.

The Six Faces of the future are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.

Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.

I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is.

I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.

The questions that we scientist have about Saturn's rings are the questions that an ordinary person might be moved to ask when first seeing them, you know. What caused them? How did they get there? How long have they been around? How long are they going to last?

If sculpture can really deal with the body, because we all inhabit ourselves, and if sculpture can really do that, which it is supposed to be able to do, and through it ask questions, philosophical questions, about being, I think these are all things we work on, all of us in our different ways, so perhaps somewhere in there, there are moments where dumb objects can speak.

For ethical fashion, I really like Reformation. It's so fashionable - no hemp trousers.

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt, but I understand that Senator Mitchell's report has raised many serious questions. I plan to publicly answer all of those questions at the appropriate time in the appropriate way. I only ask that in the meantime people not rush to judgment.

A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

I am committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct for government officials.

If we are going to ask questions of the defensive guys, then we are going to ask questions of the guys at the top end as well.