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Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal. -- Robert Sheckley
Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't. -- Harvey Mackay
Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time. -- Lee R. Raymond
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern. -- Daniel Dennett
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. -- Henry Kravis
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts 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. -- Aneurin Bevan
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. -- Albert Schweitzer
Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces. -- Mark Twain
Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence. -- Gary L. Francione
Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality. -- Albert Schweitzer
With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible. -- Dharma Mittra
Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior -- Manmohan Singh
Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war. -- Karl Brandt
Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress. -- Freeman Dyson
Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities. -- Dale Jamieson
The Six Faces of the FUTURE are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical. -- Patrick Dixon
Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination. -- Margaret E. Knight
Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes. -- Bertrand Russell
Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well. -- Adrian Grenier
At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since. -- Betty Comden
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. -- Felix Adler
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal. -- Aldo Leopold
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. -- Albert Einstein
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday. -- Felix Adler
I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways. -- Pink
Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it. -- Price Pritchett
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. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected. -- Richard Whately
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. -- Felix Adler
Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others. -- Hugo Black
People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves. -- John C. Maxwell
Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is to produce a complete rule book that would be applicable to all cases. -- Philip Kitcher
Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution. -- Herbert Spencer
Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change. -- Lafcadio Hearn
A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior. -- Vinoba Bhave
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him. -- Albert Schweitzer
I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society. -- Bernhard Goetz
In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action. -- Jerry Pournelle
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. -- Bertrand Russell
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. -- William James
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- Omar N. Bradley
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world. -- Stanislav Grof
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. -- Irving Babbitt
In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased. -- Vladimir Putin
There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations. -- Stephen Covey
Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life. -- John Boehner
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately. -- Catherine Bell
By the way, I'm not a vegetarian. I have a lot of respect for people who are vegetarian for religious or ethical reasons. -- Eric Schlosser
To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles. -- Mike Pence
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America? -- Zig Ziglar
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. -- Margaret Mead
If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble. -- Henry Kravis
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. -- Omar N. Bradley
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. -- Albert Schweitzer
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day. -- William Bennett
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 -- John Dos Passos
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. -- John Dos Passos
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. -- Aneurin Bevan
My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues. -- Peter Singer
In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics. -- Pete McCloskey
The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster. -- Sheri Fink
There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders. -- Pope Francis
The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. -- David Bowie
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places. -- Peter Singer
As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making. -- Ursula Burns
Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers-or we will all perish together as fools. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. -- Albert Einstein
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. -- Sigmund Freud
Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century; we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code. -- Michael Moore
Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people. -- Ben Carson
Perhaps we should worry less about judging people for being Mormon or Baptist or Muslim or gay or straight or black or white or Latino or by their religious or political brands and worry more about electing thoughtful, serious and ethical politicians on both sides of the political isle who are willing to work together for progress. -- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't. -- Margaret Atwood
Enjoy your work and have ethical standards. -- Walter Schloss
Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course. -- Adrian Cadbury
Education is the art of making man ethical. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I find shoes difficult to be ethical about... -- Steven Morrissey
Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs. -- Charles R. Swindoll
It's pretty simple, the ethical life. It's just demanding. -- Terence McKenna
Buddhism's cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm. -- Gil Fronsdal
Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity. -- Albert Einstein
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator. -- Robert Motherwell
Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets. -- Mark Buchanan
Integrity is the essence of a beautiful, ethical life. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
If your ethical model defeats you, change the model. -- D.B.C. Pierre
No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical. -- Janet Morris
Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street. -- John J. Mack
Everyday we act in ways that reflect our ethical judgements. -- Peter Singer
WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. -- Julian Assange
Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets. -- Rita Mae Brown
The most ethical administration in the history of the Republic. -- William J. Clinton
People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas. -- Mitch Horowitz
There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves. -- L. Ron Hubbard
In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling. -- Bonnie Wright
I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work. -- Albert Einstein
Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us. -- Henry Giroux
Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments. -- Andrew Ferguson
There's no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards. -- Jordan Belfort
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Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar. -- H. L. Mencken
Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong. -- Price Pritchett
Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is. -- Amanda Hearst
All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form. -- Henry David Thoreau
Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness. -- Dalai Lama
Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind. -- John Calvin
I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct. -- Jonathan Sacks
We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules. -- Michael Pollan
The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit. -- Jim Hightower
To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension. -- Joan Didion
while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion. -- Georgia Harkness
Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care. -- Bob McDonnell
We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues. -- Bill Joy
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical -- Hermann Broch
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga -- Dharma Mittra
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship. -- Aldo Leopold

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