Ethical Quotes

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

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

Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.

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

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

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

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

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

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting.

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

Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

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.

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

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

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

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

You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious.

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

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

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.

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

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

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

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

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

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.

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

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

To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?