Ethical Quotes · Page 6

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now…

— Anonymous

[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“As humanity becomes more numerous and interwoven, living respectfully with diversity is not just an ethical choice, it is a practical imperative.…

— Ken Robinson

“Christians do not restrict their moral horizons to immediate results; they make their ethical decisions from an eternal perspective (p. 52).”

— D.A. Carson

In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is…

— Pierfrancesco Favino

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

— Steve Coogan

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

— Tacitus

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

— Walter Lippmann

I enjoy the optimism of design, even though we can see it as doomed. But I'm telling most people that I'm not…

— Momus

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves…

— Jaron Lanier

I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation…

— John Mackey

Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are…

— Hugo Black

Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal…

— Michael Lerner

Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation…

— John Carroll

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better…

— Anthony Fauci

The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our…

— Gary Morris

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also…

— Albert Einstein

I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is…

— Muhammad Iqbal

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for…

— Albert Schweitzer

Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the…

— Joseph McCabe

I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy…

— Edmund White

My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not…

— Padma Subrahmanyam

Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in…

— William J. Clinton

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

— Felix Adler

“Ethical vegetarians eat only plant-based food in order to show compassion toward animals and other humans and to benefit the planet.”

— Sharon Gannon

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

— Rohan Marley

As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

— Patrick Carney

“What they consider to be the ‘natural’ order must be maintained. That pursuit is so much higher than all else—it makes lesser…

— Hugh Howey

Does anyone really believe a four-year degree is what separates an ethical person from a con artist?

— Rich Paul

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

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

— Bertrand Russell

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he…

— Bertrand Russell

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

— Derek Bok

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name…

— Oscar Wilde

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

— Anonymous

I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and…

— Pink

The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt…

— Carl Bernstein

Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting.

— James McAvoy

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the…

— Roger Mudd