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• We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will feel it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual and ethical aspirations and will allow themselves to give more space to their highest vision in their personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning is as much about these millions of small acts as it is about any larger change. The two necessarily go hand in hand.

  Michael Lerner

  God, Spiritual, Caring

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• The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral, spiritual and ethical principles in the task of ensuring a sustainable future for those who inhabit the Earth now and those who will follow us on the Earth.

  Maurice Strong

  God, Spiritual, Future

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• The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.

  Enrico Fermi

  Believe, Thinking, Light

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• Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga

  Dharma Mittra

  Yoga, Known

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• The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

  Walter Lippmann

  Majority Rule, Politics, Found

  Walter Lippmann (2011). “The Phantom Public”, p.48, Transaction Publishers

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• Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Peace, Mean, Humanity

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.53, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• 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.

  Karen Armstrong

  Believe, Giving, Religion

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• 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.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Mirrors, Want, Life Experience

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• You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn't imagine why. "Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out." "The interest alone is going to kill you." "What do you charge?" "Three hundred eighty-seven percent." "Is that ethical?" "It's as ethical as my dating the son of Satan.

  Darynda Jones

  Son, Dating, Dollars

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light: Number 5 in series”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• Having children-the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings-is the biggest job anyone can embark on. You have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of people for their help and guidance.

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Jobs, Children

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• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Future, Equality, Rights

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• The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with vigour and ethical meaning.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Ideas

  "Lectures on the Method of Academic Study" by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, translated by E. S. Morgan, edited by Norbert Guterman, 1966.

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• The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Falling In Love, Negative

  "Stages on Life's Way" by Søren Kierkegaard, Hong, (p. 111), April 30, 1845.

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• With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible.

  Dharma Mittra

  Yoga, Littles, Concentration

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• It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

  Ashley Montagu

  Integrity, Men, Principles

  Ashley Montagu (1958). “The Cultured Man”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

  Earl Warren

  Character, Men, Mazes

  Earl Warren's Speech at the Louis Marshall Award Dinner of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Americana Hotel, New York City, November 11, 1962.

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• Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Giving, Wish

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.97, Booklassic

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• Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Loyalty, Truth, Honesty

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1952). “A faith for tough times”

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• No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, War, Ethos

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.29, Paradise Publishing

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• According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, fish have feelings too. Whenever my sons go fishing they always tell me, "Dad it doesn't hurt a fish to get hooked." Well I watch and I see and I believe it's painful for the fish.

  Donald Trump

  Funny Inspirational, Hurt, Dad

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Exercise, Hunting, Sportsmanship

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.178, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational Love, Believe, Thinking

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• Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Motivational, Excellence, Cost

  Charles R. Swindoll (2008). “Dear Graduate: Letters of Wisdom from Charles R. Swindoll”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty is integral to ethical behavior, and trustworthiness is essential for good, lasting relationships.

  Buck Rodgers

  Honesty, Believe, Misunderstood

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