The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Culture in general wants to connect ethical issues with consumerism. And we can see that overflowing into something that is consumed so… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“There is no check-box for ethical leadership. It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey. We will never know everything that there… — Linda Fisher Thornton Copy Share Image
By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and… — Vicente del Bosque Copy Share Image
The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some… — Katharine Hamnett Copy Share Image
In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good… — Marc Bekoff 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
But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets… — Price Pritchett 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
Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Have you ever known an alcoholic, a cigarette smoker, or a heroin user to be rational when it came to alcohol, cigarettes,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we… — Viktoria Modesta Copy Share Image
My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability. — Doug Berry 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
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
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