Ethics Quote by Winston Churchill

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

— Peter Singer

It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social…

— Peter Singer

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

— Albert Schweitzer

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

— Tom Stoppard

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

— Peter Singer

“Our ethics are not meant to be created in our childhoods and shoved in a box somewhere; they must be reshaped daily, as we…

— Elie Wiesel

The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships and the…

— Peter Singer

We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental' moral philosophy…

— Catherine Wilson

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

— Paul Bloom

Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules and ask…

— Tariq Ramadan

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

— Rupert Sheldrake