Ethical Quotes

528 Ethical quotes by 398 unique authors

One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is… — Roland Barthes
If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. … If we have enough, we have to share… — Peter Singer
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal. — Robert Sheckley
All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave… — Marshall McLuhan
I find shoes difficult to be ethical about... — Steven Morrissey
My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned their gaze on… — Phil Zuckerman
Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs. — Phil Zuckerman
We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the… — Jane Goodall
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns… — Jane Goodall
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not… — William Ralph Inge
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political… — Geoffrey Miller
On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act. — Pope Francis
Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes… — Rick Riordan
The movement of Pakistan which the Quaid-e-Azam launched was ethical in inspiration and ideological in content. The story of this movement is a story of… — Fatima Jinnah
Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000… — Jon Stewart
What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I… — Cornel West
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm,… — Edgar Allan Poe
The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces. — Mark Twain
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes. — Arthur Koestler
The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there… — Roland Barthes
It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans,… — Norbert Wiener
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. — Arthur Levitt Jr

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398 authors contributed a total of 528 Ethical Quotes, led by these top contributors: