Ethical Quotes

528 Ethical quotes by 398 unique authors

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war. — Karl Brandt
My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions.… — Padma Subrahmanyam
Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety… — Friedrich Schleiermacher
For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art… — Friedrich Schleiermacher
The doctrine of foods is of great ethical and political significance. Food becomes blood, blood becomes heart and brain, thoughts and mind stuff. Human fare… — Ludwig Feuerbach
The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was full of lies.… — William Bastone
At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what… — Hans Kung
If your ethical model defeats you, change the model. — D.B.C. Pierre
The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to. — Michael Josephson
The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind… — Margaret Halsey
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens… — Dorothea Brande
To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to… — Val Plumwood
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator. — Robert Motherwell
British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For… — Conor Cruise O'Brien
To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale.… — Albert Schweitzer
Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer. — Philippe Starck
We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our… — Peter Singer
The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low… — Price Pritchett
There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,… — Albert Einstein

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