Ethical Quotes - Page 4

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

There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.

To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

Buddhism’s cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.

Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer to ignore, such as whether their conduct is ethical. This can trigger discomfort, and some people may simply close their minds to it. It does not follow that we ought to stop talking about these things.

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.

There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.