Ethical Quotes

Ethical Quote of the day

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

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

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

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.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.

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.

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

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.

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

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

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

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

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.

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

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

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.

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.

To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway.

For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.

But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

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.

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

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

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.

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

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.

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

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.

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.