Ethical Quotes · Page 11

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral…

— Jodi Picoult

“Carnism is the belief system in which eating certain animals is considered ethical and appropriate.”

— Melanie Joy

“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

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social…

— Karl Lehmann

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity…

— Sam Harris

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

— Dale Jamieson

I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve…

— Dominique Moceanu

We have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good - always do the right, ethical thing.…

— Sergey Brin

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is,…

— Alexei Panshin

I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of…

— Jack London

Weight loss programs and health clubs have an ethical and legal obligation to adequately disclose details about program costs before customers sign…

— Bill Vaughan

My father, Ronald Reagan, held the presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a…

— Michael Reagan

So when I say that I think we would have a different ethical level, particularly in corporate America, if there were more…

— Vicki Donlan

“Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both,…

— Ashish Patel

I was aware of what animals go through because I had driven animals to slaughter and I'd killed animals. And I was…

— Neal Barnard

Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most…

— Al Barry

The ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped…

— H. G. Wells

Tom Coburn never forgot that members of Congress are spending the hard-earned money of the people back home. Even a lot of…

— John Fund

“There’s such a thing as being irritatingly ethical,” said Eldric. “That’s you, right now.” That’s a pleasant change. Witches are rarely accused…

— Franny Billingsley

“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which…

— Sigmund Freud

It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm…

— Johnny Carson

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific…

— Carl Schmitt

True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our…

— Stephen Batchelor

The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

— Marlon Brando

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

— Margaret E. Knight

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

An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

For decades, the pro-life movement has focused on scientific evidence and ethical arguments.

— Michael J. Knowles

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in…

— Earl Warren

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

— Aldo Leopold

I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.

— James Cromwell

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Gun producer and the killer is the same thing! Be ethical, stop producing guns! Be human, for God's sake, for there shall…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

— John Kleinig

Aligning with Piper-Heidsieck suits me because they're on an ethical and sustainable path as a business and their values align with me.

— Ajla Tomljanovic

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

— Liz Williams

“When the moral and ethical failure of others becomes your defense, that will be your conviction.”

— Wyatt Pringle Jr

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of…

— Johan Huizinga