Ethical Quotes - Page 22

• Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the real ethical dilemmas that we face.

  George W. Bush

  Real, Important, Faces

  The debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry at Washington University, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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

  James McAvoy

  Interesting, Lines, Moral

  Source: collider.com

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• Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Ideas, Musician

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• Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Suffering, Today, Ethics

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• A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.

  Barbara Holland

  Spiritual, Eye, Sight

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• Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.

  Sholem Asch

  Arms, Moral, Life Is

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• I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Thinking, Problem, Psychological

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• 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.

  Anita Roddick

  Believe, Ninety Nine, Way

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• Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religion, Twenties, Breakfast

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• Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

  Richard Stallman

  Phones, Long, Way

  "Is Android really free software?" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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

  Georgia Harkness

  Mean, Religion, Ethics

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• Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!

  Javad Alizadeh

  Self, Political, Solitude

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• Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our ethical vision. If our actions in the world are to stem from an encounter with what is central in life, they must be unclouded by either dogma or prevarication. Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Empathy, Risk, Vision

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• The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break rules and defy authority. . . . She rids herself of the "oughts" and "musts" that convert every minor infraction into a sin of omission or commission. It certainly does not occur to her or to her family that by questioning the moral standards she erected as a child she is taking the first steps in her journey toward a firmer, more reasonable, less harsh, more ethical form of conscience.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Journey, Omission

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• It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I think we need that in our lives. We need ethical, heroic people trying to do the right thing to help others and to improve life on this planet and in the universe.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Helping Others, Thinking, People

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

  Michael Pollan

  Priorities, Different

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the information, they will make better ethical choices.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Choices, Information

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Humanism is an approach to life which encourages ethical and fulfilling living on the basis of reason and humanity, and rejects superstition and religion. The most immediate impact of living as a Humanist is that we believe this life is all there is - so what we do and the choices we make really count.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Impact, Choices

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• Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.

  Edd Doerr

  Religious, Light, Government

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

  William Fleming

  Ancient, Virtue, Cardinals

  William Fleming (1858). “Vocabulary of Philosophy Psychological, Ethical, Metaphysical by William Fleming”, p.410

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

  Patrick Dixon

  Faces, Six, Urban

  "Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.

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• We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely that the source of error is, as the advertisement says, a reflection of the fact that "its dangerous to trifle with Mother Nature".

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Mother, Reflection, Errors

  "Integrity in Scientific Research". Book by Lewis M. Branscomb, 1985.

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• Weight loss programs and health clubs have an ethical and legal obligation to adequately disclose details about program costs before customers sign a contract. They should also clearly explain how the program works and what is expected so that consumers can make an informed choice whether to join.

  Bill Vaughan

  Loss, Choices, Details

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Research, Corruption, Behavior

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Have Faith, Relation, Feels

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.26, Oxford University Press, USA

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