Ethical Quotes

528 Ethical quotes by 398 unique authors

Having children-the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings-is the biggest job anyone can embark on. You have to take a leap of… — Maria Shriver
A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are… — Steve Jobs
America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders. — George W. Bush
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical… — William Bennett
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems. — Mahnaz Afkhami
The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge.… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to… — Soren Kierkegaard
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. — Omar N. Bradley
Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value. — Mikhail Gorbachev
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. — Walter Lippmann
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people,… — Gore Vidal
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. — Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga — Dharma Mittra
If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of… — Francis Fukuyama
Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines our highest moral… — Michael Lerner
Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else. — Nirmala Srivastava
Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness. — Dalai Lama
We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread,… — Michael Lerner
The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral, spiritual and ethical… — Maurice Strong
The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge… — Enrico Fermi
With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible. — Dharma Mittra
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle — Ashley Montagu
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of… — Earl Warren
Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do… — Michael Josephson

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