Character Quote by Alexei Panshin

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of…

— Daniel Dennett

“Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“The Ethical can therefore end up making us irresponsible.”

— Jacques Derrida

“I do most sincerely believe that ethical behavior as we best construe it ought to be followed by us throughout our lives, even on…

— William T. Vollmann

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“about the most ideal results coming when people treat others ethically, with respect.” “Not exactly a complicated concept, huh?”

— Kenneth C. Johnson

“I love how you weave in your philosophy, about the most ideal results coming when people treat others ethically, with respect.” “Not exactly a…

— Kenneth C. Johnson

“Ethics is not a description of what people do; it's a prescription for what we all should do.”

— Michael Josephson

“On a practical level, there are two vital steps to ethical behavior: knowing what is right and doing it.”

— Michael Josephson

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics,…

— Jayson Blair

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices.”

— Linda Fisher Thornton