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Ethics Quotes by Peter Singer
- We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on…
- I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on…
- If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the…
- Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of…
- Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
- 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…
- That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to…
- More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
- Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
- At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you…
- I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
- I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
- Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term…
More Ethics Quotes
- I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. — Richard Bach
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- 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
- 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
- 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 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