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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

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical — Hermann Broch

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

A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children. — Moby

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

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

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

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something. — Bonnie Hammer

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

Buddhism's cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm. — Gil Fronsdal

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

Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him. — Billy Graham

It's pretty simple, the ethical life. It's just demanding. — Terence McKenna

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

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

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me. — Nell Newman

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

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

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior. — Derek Bok

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

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. — Mahavira

Don't even get me started. I'm not against all vegetarians. But if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm. — David Chang

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

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others. — Will Tuttle

From a legal perspective, illegal communication
behavior 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

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. — Roger Ebert

Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license. — Aleister Crowley

You can do what's right, or you can do what you are told. — Phil Ochs

[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

Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion. — Mahavira

Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America? — Zig Ziglar

To demonstrate integrity, a person must have the courage to consistently adhere to a strong ethical code, even in difficult situations. — Scott K. Edinger

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior. — Vinoba Bhave

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

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar. — H.L. Mencken

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

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

If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it? — Chuck Klosterman

I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is. — Amanda Hearst

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy. — Paul Hawken

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

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness. — Dalai Lama

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

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

We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves (George Meredith, ORF) — George Meredith

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

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually. — John Templeton

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt

But such a fortuitous rescue from ethical bondage is rare indeed. — Joe Queenan

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong. — Price Pritchett

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal. — Aldo Leopold

For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic. — Jack Beal

I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland. — Amanda Hearst