Top 1068 Ethical Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
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.
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.
Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the 'Catholic Herald.'
Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.
For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
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.
I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.
An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.
The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
You must have anger, as rightful wrath is what makes you create your own ethical standards.
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.
I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.
To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
I always turn to Wendy Williams when there's any type of ethical or moral crisis in our country.
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.
Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.
Even if we wanted to imbue an autonomous vehicle with an ethical engine, we don't have the technical capability today to do so.
Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.
Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.
Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.
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 beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the information, they will make better ethical choices.
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.
The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.
I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
Don't even get me started. I'm not against all vegetarians. But if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm.
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.
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.
Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.
I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
I don't use any animal products, both because of ethical and environmental and climate reasons.
The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.
One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.
I believe in the power of a positive, high-performance culture, which begins with strong ethical values at the core.
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.
Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.
Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.
Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.
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.
