Ethical Quotes - Page 30

• Buddhism’s cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.

  Gil Fronsdal

  Buddhism, Ethical Principles, Harm

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• The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values. The cross radically disrupts the very center and citadel of your life from self to Christ. And if the cross has not done that, you're not a Christian!

  Albert Martin

  Christian, Religious, Self

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• 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.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Knowledge, Science, Technology

  "Who's to blame?" by Lewis Wolpert, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2002.

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• I do think the best thing for companies like Google and Facebook, if they are afraid of this ethical trap of advertising, is they should start letting people pay who want to pay and avoid some of the advertising.

  Tim Wu

  Thinking, People, Google

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it.

  Cornel West

  Mean, Exercise, Talking

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• The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Validation, Rejection, Doe

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• The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Simple, Poetry, May

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• I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but perhaps, above all literary critics, I'm indebted to Wayne Booth (several people have suggested to me that I'm trying to reinvent "ethical criticism").

  Philip Kitcher

  People, Criticism, Trying

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• On domestic policy, Donald Trump agreed with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Wall Street bailout, the TARP bailout of big bank. I think the government ought to be standing with mainstream, with working men and women. And then you put on top of that the ethical issues, whether it is refusing to release his taxes. And that's a real problem.

  Ted Cruz

  Wall, Real, Men

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.

  Richard Marshall

  Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is to produce a complete rule book that would be applicable to all cases.

  Philip Kitcher

  Book, Goal, Would Be

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• 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.

  Philip Kitcher

  Ideas, Dubious, Finals

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.

  Philip Kitcher

  Goal, Inquiry, Use

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.

  Philip Kitcher

  Progress, Elements, Stable

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When I try to outline the history of ethical life, it's sometimes possible to find evidence for a hypothesis about how important transitions actually went. Often, however, that isn't so. There are many facts about human life in the Paleolithic we're never likely to know.

  Philip Kitcher

  Important, Trying, Transition

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.

  Philip Kitcher

  Community, Realizing, Human Life

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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

  Bob McDonnell

  Doctors, Practice, Care

  "McDonnell Talks Super Tuesday". Interview with Jim Geraghty, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2012.

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• The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

  Ken Blanchard

  Principles, Purpose, Want

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• You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.

  Amy Dickinson

  Hurt, Women, Giving

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• John Frame's magnificent work on the Christian life fully endorses the authority of Scripture and practically addresses the need to consider the situations and people involved in ethical decisions.

  Richard L. Pratt, Jr.

  Christian, People, Decision

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• As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

  Patrick Carney

  Mixing, Code

  "The Black Keys on new album, rabid fans and Lana Del Rey". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.co.uk. May 13, 2014.

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• The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.

  Philip Zimbardo

  People, Firsts, Heat

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• Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the first to outline clearly what one is tempted to call the elementary scene of ideology, its zero-level, which consists in asserting the (nameless) authority of some substantial Tradition.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Zero, Order, Levels

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• Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

  Gao Xingjian

  Literature, Moral, Mass

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• The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our members will be ambassadors for ethical hunting, respect for private property rights, support for conservation funding and programs that give our children the chance to learn the valuable lessons of nature.

  Gary Morris

  Children, Hunting, Rights

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