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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
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.
— Ricky Gervais
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
— Henry Kissinger
If you're looking to find a career that makes a difference - and work you really love - this book will show you how.
— Paul Allen
In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.
— Edward O. Wilson
While religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.
— Georgia Harkness
Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.
— Linda Fisher Thornton
You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
America has swerved from its ethical center.
— Marianne Williamson
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.
— Lee Kuan Yew
There is nothing about a Ph.D. that guarantees a person will be wiser, kinder, or more ethical than someone with only a high school education.
— Dennis Prager
Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
— Jonathan Safran Foer
For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical responsibility varies with his knowledge of consequences
— G.K. Chesterton
I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.
— Diana Nyad
Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story.
— Pierfrancesco Favino
Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.
— Phil Zuckerman
The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.
— Michael Greger
Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
— Lee R. Raymond
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
— George Bernard Shaw
It's pretty simple, the ethical life. It's just demanding.
— Terence McKenna
Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
— Price Pritchett
Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
— Bertrand Russell
If manipulation really does increase welfare, then it would seem to be justified and even mandatory on ethical grounds.
— Cass R. Sunstein
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
— Freeman Dyson
In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ...
— Aldous Huxley
Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.
— Llewelyn Powys
Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer.
— Jennifer Doudna
I had violated one of Ross Jeffries's only ethical rule of seduction: Leave her better than you found her.
— Neil Strauss
Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
— Rita Mae Brown
While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.
— Evgeny Morozov
our common humanity made it possible to find common cause in the midst of competition and that peace depended on our own virtue and ethical behavior.
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
From a legal perspective, illegal communicationbehavior also is unethical, but that which is not specifically illegal is ethical. In — Charles U. Larson
In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.
— Bonnie Wright
Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
— Jeanne Moreau
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
— Bill Mollison
Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license.
— Aleister Crowley
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[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.
— Liz Williams
Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?
— Madeleine M. Kunin
Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure. Why resist that?
— Barbara Kingsolver
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.
— Francis Parker Yockey
To demonstrate integrity, a person must have the courage to consistently adhere to a strong ethical code, even in difficult situations.
— Scott K. Edinger
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.
— Peter Singer
What we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Ethical use of anything sets everything right, and also makes space for more.
— Vijaya Raje Lakshmi
Carnism is the belief system in which eating certain animals is considered ethical and appropriate.
— Melanie Joy
Luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
— Umberto Eco
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
— Swami Vivekananda
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
— Robert Sheckley
We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
— Aldo Leopold
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
— William James
On a practical level, there are two vital steps to ethical behavior:knowing what is right and doing it. — Michael Josephson
Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?
— Jeanette Winterson
To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.
— Felix Adler
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
— Mary McCarthy
If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?
— Chuck Klosterman
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
— Carl Bernstein
A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.
— Doug Berry
Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.
— Charles R. Swindoll
The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past. - Corliss Lamont, humanist philosopher
— Dale McGowan
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Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
— Albert Schweitzer
Is it a thorny question of ethics? Or is it the sort of ethical question where the right choice is easy, but the unethical answer is too tempting?
— Courtney Milan
No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
— Bertrand Russell
While reaching up for manhood they tumble over a moral and ethical precipice and many can never scale their way back up.
— Geoffrey Canada
The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.
— Ruben Martinez
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
