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Ethics Quotes by Aldo Leopold
- All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The…
- No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
- I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves…
- A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
- My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In…
- The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy - it is already too late for that - but in…
- There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls,…
- That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.
More Ethics Quotes
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. — Richard Bach
- Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. — Philip James Bailey
- Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
- I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes.… — Amy Adams
- What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and… — Amy Adams
- You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be… — John Perry Barlow
- Morality is a private and costly luxury. — Henry Adams