The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
As for Hollywood, there was an offer. But I declined to do it because of certain moral and ethical values. — Suriya Copy Share Image
As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and… — David Millar Copy Share Image
What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the… — Josh Charles Copy Share Image
“If the ethical - that is, social morality - is the highest and if there is in a person no residual incommensurability… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If intelligent robots are our competitors and, to some extent, cerebrally alike - enough for us to discuss their ethical standing -… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the… — Lloyd Cutler Copy Share Image
I would teach the world that science is the best way to understand the world and that for any set of observations,… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
The questions to ask are what is moral, what is ethical, what is in line with your belief system, and what seems… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“I want to make the choice that gives an accurate impression of who I am; and who I am is someone who… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
“In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese… — William D. Leahy Copy Share Image
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems. — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
It is important to recognise that, alongside the huge benefits that artificial intelligence offers, there are potential ethical issues associated with some… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight… — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
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