Ethical Quotes

528 Ethical quotes by 398 unique authors

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past. — Corliss Lamont
The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception.… — Pope Francis
But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework of ethical purpose… — John W. Gardner
In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to… — Edward Bernays
Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment. — Price Pritchett
The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right… — Pope John Paul II
A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and… — George Bernard Shaw
Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar. — H. L. Mencken
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask. — C.S. Lewis
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The failure of market catallactics in no way denies the following truth: given sufficient knowledge the optimal decisions can always be found by scanning over… — Paul Samuelson
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression… — Peter Singer
I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a different person, but… — Cheryl Strayed
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up… — John Hoyt
Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done… — Christopher Hitchens
To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that states, and… — Stephan Kinsella
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world. — Stanislav Grof
Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does it… — Ezekiel Emanuel
Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making… — Sergey Brin
Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner… — John Stott
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated… — William D. Leahy
There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards. — Jordan Belfort
I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a… — Lynn Hill
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic… — Carl Schmitt

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