Ethical Quotes

528 quotes by 411 authors

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. — Julian Assange
If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships… — Margaret Atwood
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. — Felix Adler
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party.… — Aneurin Bevan
A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior. — Vinoba Bhave
Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life. — John Boehner
The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and… — David Bowie
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we… — Omar N. Bradley
Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever… — Benjamin Carson
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to… — Albert Einstein
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up… — Horace Mann
The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human ethics. It is… — George Gaylord Simpson
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have… — H. L. Mencken
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious… — Frances Perkins
I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far… — Charlie Chaplin
A code of ethics cannot be developed overnight by edict or official pronouncement. It is developed by years of practice and performance of duty according… — Silas L. Copeland
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent… — Susan Sontag
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute… — Thomas Huxley

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