Moral Quote by Lee R. Raymond Download Open image “There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.” — Lee R. Raymond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Moral Participants
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system. — James Richardson Copy Share Image
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I think we're already getting to a stage where the basic artificial intelligences are discovering moral systems. I think, in many ways, moral systems… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined. — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time. — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened. — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services,… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business. — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance. — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
