At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since. — Betty Comden Copy Share Image
I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use… — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task… — John Hoyt Copy Share Image
If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but… — Henry Kravis Copy Share Image
Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“A Jewish ethical treatise warns that a man must not express his anger by pounding on a book or by hitting people… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve… — Mike Hulme Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“A good basic guideline for our speech (in relation to Ethical Conduct) is to reflect whether what we are saying is both… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.… — Susan Sontag 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
We all have our moments. But you can switch it around. Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Children are the ultimate investment of all of those that want to make money, to sell, to dominate. So there are two… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and… — Albert Martin Copy Share Image
I find crowdfunding to be one of the most ethical ways to continue doing the work that we do because the idea… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I think you have a certain level of confidence in what you do. "Arrogance" is the wrong word. I think when you… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical… — Adam Croasdell Copy Share Image
In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
...how engaged are your employees right now? You may consider such a question impossible to answer, but the truth is, you need… — Jim Craig Copy Share Image
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image