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  Do the right thing because it is right.

  Immanuel Kant

  Courage, Honesty, Integrity

  Immanuel Kant (2005). “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.39, Broadview Press

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• I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

  Ron Kind

  Leadership, Believe, Important

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• The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

  Stanislav Grof

  Impact, World, Belief

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• In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

  Pete McCloskey

  Honesty, Men, Leader

  "Pete McCloskey Talks about GOP Corruption - IV". Interview with Kelpie Wilson, www.scoop.co.nz. March 1, 2006.

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• 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.

  Daniel Dennett

  Problem, Mathematics, Source

  "Daniel Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995)". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.harikunzru.com. December 17, 2008.

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• The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

  William Bennett

  Education, Character, People

  William J. Bennett (1989). “Our Children and Our Country: Improving America's Schools and Affirming the Common Culture”, Touchstone Books

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• Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

  Robert Sheckley

  Philosophy, Interest, Deals

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• There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

  Karl Lehmann

  Agency, Church, Yardsticks

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• To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

  Mike Pence

  Cells, Miracle, Adults

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.

  John Boehner

  Cells, Research, Way

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• Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Respect, Educational, Ethical Principles

  Pierre de Coubertin, Norbert Müller (2000). “Olympism: Selected Writings”, Lausanne, Switzerland : International Olympic Committee

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• Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Literature, West, Contemporary

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.150, tredition

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• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Thinking, Atheism, Experience

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

  Freda Adler

  Funny, Philosophical, Humor

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Party, Heart, Nhs

  Speech at Manchester, 4 July 1948, in The Times 5 July 1948

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• The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

  John Dos Passos

  Strong, Men, Fog

  John Dos Passos (1956). “The Theme is Freedom”

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• WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.

  Julian Assange

  Wikileaks, Capitalism

  "An Interview With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange". Interview with Andy Greenberg, www.forbes.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

  Emma Goldman

  Foundation, Deceit, Revolution

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Littles, Simplest

  Elizabeth Gunn, Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “A daring coiffeur: reflections on War and peace and Anna Karenina”, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

  Abigail Solomon-Godeau

  Plato, Mean, Years

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

  Lee R. Raymond

  Organization, Long, Economy

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• But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

  Price Pritchett

  Responsibility, Ethical Standards, Organization

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• The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Smart

  "Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators" by Dave Stone, (p. 143), 2004.

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• I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

  Gore Vidal

  Educational, Race, People

  "At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal (Appendix), 1988.

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• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Evil, Nuclear Missiles

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