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Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. -- Arthur Levitt Jr
Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations. -- Paul Kurtz
Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. -- Emma Goldman
We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour. -- Vicente del Bosque
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. -- Paul Kurtz
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics. -- Albert Einstein
My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something. -- Bonnie Hammer
There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed. -- Aga Khan IV
As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde
All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician. -- Hermann Nothnagel
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. -- Albert Einstein
Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology. -- Lewis Wolpert
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. -- Bertrand Russell
Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality. -- Bhikkhu Bodhi
Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make -- George Bernard Shaw
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century. -- Noam Chomsky
Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone. -- Emma Goldman
Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century. -- William J. Clinton
I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work. -- Albert Einstein
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. -- Arthur Levitt Jr
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities. -- Philip Kitcher
One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete. -- Philip Kitcher
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system. -- Lee Kuan Yew
Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity. -- Pitirim Sorokin
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
Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better. -- Anita Roddick
Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time. -- Shari Arison

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