Best 137 quotes in «ethical quotes» category

Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you’re due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings.

We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

To have been possessed by something so awful and so alien, and then the next morning wake up from it, remember what happened, and realize what I had done, with a clear mind and all my essential moral and ethical feelings intact at that moment, [I was] absolutely horrified that I was capable of doing something like that.

To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships.

We never know what’s in us till we stand by ourselves” (George Meredith, ORF)

Whatever be your obsession, it needs not to be reasonable- but ethical.

When you have much higher ethical values than the ethical values of your own people, you stop belonging to your own people, to your own country because your people and your country are now located in the low levels of humanity!

You are responsible for everything you TWEET and RETWEET.

Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

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

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

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.

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

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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