Collections Quote by Philip Kitcher

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

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

— Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

— Dale Jamieson

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

— Potter Stewart

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do.

— Max Allan Collins

Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it.

— Corinne Maier

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

— Ayn Rand

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

— Peter Singer

“Ethics is not a mystic fantasy--nor a social convention--nor a dispensable, subjective luxury...Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival--not by the grace of…

— Ayn Rand

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

— Lajos Kossuth

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

To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its…

— Pope Benedict XVI