Ethical Quotes - Page 19

• I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

  John Kleinig

  Priorities, Political, Judgment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply the most focused form of the demands on the evolution of the species. It imposes a certain responsibility, moral, ethical and esthetic responsibility, and the species simply doesn't want to oblige.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Responsibility, Decision, Faults

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Reason

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

  Freeman Dyson

  Progress, Done, Damage

  Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.200, Universities Press

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• The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the place where images and words find and lose their conscience, their aesthetic and ethical identity.

  William J. Mitchell

  Photography, Struggle, Reality

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• We should remember what a rapper like Tupac Shakur was doing, to a certain degree, who came from an experience of politicization very close to being a "Panther Baby". He knew, he came from that experience of the Black Panthers, and accounting for all his contradictions and process of growth, he achieved politically through gangsta rap things that no conscious rapper has achieved, such as establishing political, ethical, and moral codes between Crips and Bloods in the United States.

  Bocafloja

  Baby, Rap, Gangsta

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• MTV and the culture industry never are talking about community relevance, hood organization, they aren't talking about ethical codes, they aren't talking about forms of political organization, they don't speak about codes inside the jails. What they talk about are superficial things.

  Bocafloja

  Talking, Mtv, Organization

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

  Dale Jamieson

  Community, Conservative, Interaction

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of their ethical identity, is to surrender the white innocence that prevents them from being fully mature.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  White, Humanity, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it is the position that ethical claims have truth values, but their truth conditions consist not in a set of objective facts to which they correspond, but instead in the outcome of some procedure of deliberation resulting in decisions about what to do.

  Allen W. Wood

  Decision, Outcomes, Facts

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Philosophers do need to have intuitions of various specific sorts: ethical, metaphysical, etc., depending on their targeted subject matter. And they must make intuition reports, as they record the contents of their intuitions. But they need not go into whether an intuition has been enjoyed.

  Ernest Sosa

  Intuition, Needs, Records

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Judging, Want, Matter

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• [My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Family, Mother, Strong

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• 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?

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Ethical Standards, President

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• The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America.

  George W. Bush

  Integrity, Ethical Standards, America

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• We have all been brought up with an ethical system of 2,000 years ago, an industrial-managerial system of 200-300 years ago, a statecraft system of 200 years ago, and so on. None of this is working very well for the requirements of a time as complex and variegated as our own. So we stand shuttering at the threshold, with no clear map.

  Jean Houston

  Years, Maps, Requirements

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Ultimately, I don't know if love is an organizing principle we choose or if it's innate. I'm not sure the distinction matters to me much anymore; I just care about how we can reduce unnecessary suffering. I think that means learning to love in both the micro and the macro; engaging in ethical action at the level of intimacy and friendship, but also at the vocational level through our chosen work in the world, our right livelihood.

  C.E. Morgan

  Mean, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

  Jodi Picoult

  Ethical Issues, Answers, Moral

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.592, Simon and Schuster

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• The internet doesn't have any qualities, technical qualities. It's just fast, reaching out everywhere and so, it can process that and that volume of data flows and so, but it doesn't have any qualities like "good" or "bad" or "ethical" or "non-ethical". It's humans, it's us, not the internet.

  Werner Herzog

  Data, Quality, Flow

  Source: collider.com

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• I would love to use the tools and technology to create a completely different reality with its own rules. And in doing so, create something that incorporates the ethical component more deeply into the experience.

  Eric Holmes

  Technology, Reality, Different

  "What People Who Make Video Games Think Of Westworld". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.gizmodo.com.au. November 11, 2016.

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• Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us.

  Henry Giroux

  Political, Economic, Symptoms

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous malfeasance in meeting moral obligation. The prudential rule is that underlying the old Warner & Swasey advertisement for machine tools: "The man who needs a new machine tool, and hasn't bought it, is already paying for it". The Warner & Swasey rule also applies, I believe, to thinking tools. If you don't have the right thinking tools, you, and the people you seek to help, are already suffering from your easily removable ignorance.

  Charlie Munger

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  Charlie Munger's speech at the Breakfast Meeting of the Philanthropy Roundtable in Washington, D.C., November 10, 2000.

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• My father, Ronald Reagan, held the presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a coat and tie. Bill Clinton has such disrespect for the presidency that he was often in the Oval Office without his pants. Behold the leader of 'the most ethical administration in history'.

  Michael Reagan

  Father, Ties, Office

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

  Marc Andreessen

  People, Broken, Should

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