Ethical Quotes - Page 21

• We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to sneak any kind of sermon into a story - I've got no business preaching, and besides, that kind of thing plays poorly in fiction, always has.

  Roy Kesey

  Ethical Questions, Play, Degrees

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.

  Andrew Solomon

  Thinking, Important, Morality

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two most difficult people in the world to write with candor about - mom and dad. Everything else is downhill from there.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Mom, Dad, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was aware of what animals go through because I had driven animals to slaughter and I'd killed animals. And I was aware that there were certain ethical issues, but they weren't preying on my mind very heavily.

  Neal Barnard

  Animal, Ethical Issues, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves as individuals. Identification with Palestine is universal and not restricted to geographic boundaries. It's a question of moral and ethical positions vis-à-vis all the injustices that surround us.

  Elia Suleiman

  Thinking, Moral, Injustice

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• Goodness is also about interacting with people, brands, companies and organizations who are invested in sustainable and ethical practices. What's the point of using products that are ruining our Earth? It doesn't make sense.

  Sophie Heyman Uliano

  Practice, Organization, People

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• American public should understand what happened with adoption and why, so that our government can be held accountable moving forward, and we can know how to engage in ethical adoptions, know how to make it something good for everyone involved, not exploitative.

  Erin Siegal McIntyre

  Moving, Moving Forward, Adoption

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and moral precepts differently than if you're a professor, or a business person, or a dad. And if I were not comfortable with the judicious use of our military to protect the American people, than I shouldn't have run for president. And having said that, I do think that the wisdom of a [Martin Luther] King or a [Mahatma] Gandhi can inform my decisions.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Kings, Jobs

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

  Dalai Lama

  Communication, Ignorance, Past

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• The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.

  Ruben Martinez

  Ethical Issues, Political, Receiving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Ocean, Men

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• Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, People, Good People

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• If you can teach your child to be compassionate and to be ethical, you will be the greatest teacher!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Teacher, Children, Compassionate

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• It is not important to be a believer, it is not important to be religious, because there are billons around the world already! But it is important to be compassionate, it is important to be ethical, because there are only tens of thousands around the world, obviously not many!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Religious, Important, World

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• The ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped primarily to favour the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity — beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds, and a growing body of knowledge — and to check the procreation of base and servile types, of fear-driven and cowardly souls, of all that is mean and ugly and bestial in the souls, bodies, or habits of men.

  H. G. Wells

  Beautiful, Strong, Powerful

  "Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life And Thought". Book by H. G. Wells, www.gutenberg.org. 1902.

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• It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

  Padraic Colum

  Children, Views, Imagination

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

  Adolf Hitler

  Moral, Misery, Economic

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• Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Choices, Arena, Moral

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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• The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.

  Clare Short

  Ethical Standards, World, Demand

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• People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they do is no different from repeating lies simply because "it's my job."

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Jobs, Lying, Knowing

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.163, Random House

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• Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality.

  Bhikkhu Bodhi

  Heart, Reality, Personal Opinions

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• When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as you do in the Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions, a lot of restrictions saying you can eat this but you can't eat that. But what you do find is the idea that gluttony is a sin and that it's something that we ought to be ashamed of.

  Peter Singer

  Christian, Islamic, Ethical Issues

  "Chew the Right Thing". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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• I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so important, so essential to culture, religion, to civilization, and to our own lives. And that means what? It means not to be indifferent, not to stand idly by. That is a biblical commandment that we are committed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Biblical, Past

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I enjoy the optimism of design, even though we can see it as doomed. But I'm telling most people that I'm not writing about design any more this year. It makes no sense at all during the recession unless you write about sustainable or ethical design-very basic things, like how to get clean water in countries with a shortage of it.

  Momus

  Country, Writing, Water

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Old Testament Israel had some foundational pillars of faith. They were true and robust and God given. The trouble was that people had come to trust in them merely by repeating them, without paying any attention to the ethical implications of what their faith should mean in how they lived. They believed God had given them their land. He had. But they had not lived in it in either gratitude or obedience. They had not fulfilled any of the conditions that Deuteronomy had made so clear.

  Christopher J. H. Wright

  Gratitude, Mean, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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