Ethical Quotes
528 Ethical quotes by 398 unique authors
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Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
— Aldo Leopold
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Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and…
— Marc Bekoff
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I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals…
— Temple Grandin
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Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then…
— Peter Singer
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Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
— Charles Colson
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To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own…
— Martha C. Nussbaum
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Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average…
— Daniel Gilbert
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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a…
— Oscar Wilde
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It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.
— Terence McKenna
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I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind…
— Charles Stross
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Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught…
— Gary L. Francione
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Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.
— Gary L. Francione
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You're more than Dauntless," he says in a low voice. "But if you want to be just like them, hurling yourself into ridiculous situations for…
— Veronica Roth
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The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order…
— Russell Kirk
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This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating.…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I signed on for the role of ‘boyfriend,’ not ‘conscience.’ If you want wholesome and ethical, you’ll have to look elsewhere. But I promise that…
— Rachel Vincent
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My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.
— Cheryl Strayed
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Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
— Jonathan Franzen
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Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
— Robert K. Greenleaf
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We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing…
— Cheryl Strayed
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The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly and unequivocally inhabit…
— Surya Das
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Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.
— Karen Armstrong
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If you’re the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you’re reducing significantly the scope…
— Chuck Klosterman
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You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had…
— Darynda Jones
Who Wrote These Ethical Quotes
398 authors contributed a total of 528 Ethical Quotes, led by these top contributors: