Top 1200 Ethical Standards Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.
Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months.
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
I go by my own standards, and I will be the voice of the curves for the women that feel like they can't stand up for themselves.
I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.
If we want to have good workers and good citizens, we need to create common spaces in which individuals can talk about the moral and ethical dilemmas that they have faced and how they resolve them.
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.
I have learned that the ethics of the so-called markets can be different from what we learn at school. In day-to-day life you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term it always pays off to be ethical.
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.
We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees.
If you’re the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you’re reducing significantly the scope of your potential life experience.
The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.
. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and ethical. Environmentalism, in short, had become one version of nature religion in the lingering shadow of American transcendentalism.
I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.
If people are coming in in dribs and drabs, it doesn't look good. You have to have standards and have rules to adhere to. If you have that then it carries on into the training.
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
We have been fed such unreal standards of beauty that we have now become victims and part of this process that one cannot break.
The parts that I get to play are not based around the European beauty standards: They're more about character, and I love that.
Young girls are obsessed with having a thigh gap. I blame the impossible body standards set by Spongebob.
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
You had journalist saying during the campaign that Donald Trump compels them to suspend all objective standards of journalism.
We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.
IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.
I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.
A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.
If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population.
Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.
Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.
I would love to use the tools and technology to create a completely different reality with its own rules. And in doing so, create something that incorporates the ethical component more deeply into the experience.
The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene is the recovery of agency, or alternatively to come to terms with its loss and to understand how to go on.
"I signed on for the role of ‘boyfriend,’ not ‘conscience.’ If you want wholesome and ethical, you’ll have to look elsewhere. But I promise that won’t be half as much fun as this is…" His hand slid down my side and over my hip, and my heart beat faster.
Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty is integral to ethical behavior, and trustworthiness is essential for good, lasting relationships.
There's this unspoken thing that you have to wear a tux and some kind of nice dress. There are all these ethical rules, but I'm sure if you came to the Oscars in ripped jeans and a t-shirt they wouldn't throw you out. You would just look like a fool.
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.
Results are a consequence of doing things well and having high standards, improving the detail of how we play.
We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.
The avoidance of explicit ethical judgments leads political scientists to one overriding implicit value judgment - that in favor of the political status quo as it happens to prevail in any given society.
Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.
We are Bayern. We have the highest standards, and always want to win everything, so the Champions League is a very big target.
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual.
Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.
When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.
One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.
In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect.
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.
I voted against H.R. 1119, which would weaken emissions standards for coal refuse power plants.
Researchers should always consider ethical concerns on scientific research and disclose their data to the public. Scientists also need to discuss issues surrounding their research with those who are concerned.
