Best 137 quotes in «ethical quotes» category

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

American public should understand what happened with adoption and why, so that our government can be held accountable moving forward, and we can know how to engage in ethical adoptions, know how to make it something good for everyone involved, not exploitative.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

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

An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!

At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.

As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae.

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

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

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

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

I believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal.

I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

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.

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.

I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.

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

In separating out, say, legal and moral requirements, I tend to work with paradigms rather than strict divisions - eg, paradigmatically, legal requirements are jurisdictionally bound whereas ethical requirements are aspirationally universal; ethical requirements focus especially on intentions whereas legal requirements focus primarily on conduct; ethical requirements take priority over legal requirements; and so on.

Intuitive Eaters march to their inner hunger signals, and eat whatever they choose without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma.

In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist version of what I would see as Christ's messianic ethical communism, to say the least - is a new civil religion, a civil religion of freedom.

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

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

I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food chain.

It is vital to any organization, to be strong and effective, to be ethical.

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.