Ethical Quotes
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
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.
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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.
Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.
The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.
To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.
For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.
The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.
Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
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.
America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.
I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.
If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely.
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.
In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.
It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.
The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.