Character Quote by Daniel Dennett

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

— Dale Jamieson

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

— Herbert Spencer

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

— Lee R. Raymond

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people…

— Alexei Panshin

There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.

— L. Ron Hubbard

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.

— Tariq Ramadan

I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.

— Luc Montagnier

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

— Aldo Leopold

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

— Albert Camus

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

— Valdemar W Setzer

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But…

— Dalai Lama

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

— John Ziman