Ethical Quotes - Page 3

Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity. (Five Minds for the Future, p136)

The permaculture's whole principle of having to work with nature, rather than fight against it, is not just an ethical restraint. It's also about realizing you're not the one in control. Nature is not only a nurturer but also a great destroyer.

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

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible.

Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely.

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.

America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.