Humans, the supremely social mammals, are ethical and intellectual sponges. We unconsciously absorb, for good or ill, the influences that surround us. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and… — William James Copy Share Image
I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our… — Paul Nitze Copy Share Image
The psychological pain--and the ethical shame--of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Ironically enough, if the case involves race, and one claims that race is a disqualifying factor, nobody could hear the case. Everybody… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic transmissions -… — John Foley Copy Share Image
When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Hypnosis is a powerful force and in my opinion should be employed only by the best-trained and most ethical professionals for very… — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong.… — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
