Ethical Quotations | Page 4

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

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

There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.

If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. … If we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little.

There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.

It is vital to any organization, to be strong and effective, to be ethical.

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

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

I find shoes difficult to be ethical about...

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.

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

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

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

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

I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

It is essential for NIH to meet stringent ethical standards, while allowing the exchange of ideas and information that is the lifeblood of scientific discovery, ... The new regulations strike that balance effectively. They guard against improper conflicts of interest, and will allow NIH to continue to attract researchers of the highest caliber.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

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

On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.

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