Best 137 quotes in «ethical quotes» category

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

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.

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.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

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

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

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

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.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.

Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.

The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

The permaculture's whole principle of having to work with nature, rather than fight against it, is not just an ethical restraint. It's also about realizing you're not the one in control. Nature is not only a nurturer but also a great destroyer.

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.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.

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.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

The Six Faces of the future are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

This 'double ethical bind' we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

We have all been brought up with an ethical system of 2,000 years ago, an industrial-managerial system of 200-300 years ago, a statecraft system of 200 years ago, and so on. None of this is working very well for the requirements of a time as complex and variegated as our own. So we stand shuttering at the threshold, with no clear map.