Ethical Quotes - Page 31

• Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

  Colin McGinn

  Animal, Evil, Becoming

  Colin McGinn (1997). “Minds and Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas”, p.207, Oxford University Press

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• I think you have a certain level of confidence in what you do. "Arrogance" is the wrong word. I think when you go into it, you're aware that you're doing it for the right reasons - and you have your own moral and ethical code. And we weren't driven by money, but by a a desire to make music and make a statement.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Thinking, Arrogance, Desire

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions.

  John Carroll

  Objectivity, Analysis, Facts

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.65, Taylor & Francis

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• By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his existence. Take away from present-day mankind its education-based, religious-dogmatic principles- or, practically speaking, ethical-moral principles- by abolishing this religious education, but without replacing it by an equivalent, and the result will be a grave shock to the foundations of their existence.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Reality, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Sleep, Insomnia, Ends

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• John Frame's magnificent work on the Christian life fully endorses the authority of Scripture and practically addresses the need to consider the situations and people involved in ethical decisions.

  Richard L. Pratt, Jr.

  Christian, People, Decision

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• The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

  Ken Blanchard

  Principles, Purpose, Want

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• Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

  Bob McDonnell

  Doctors, Practice, Care

  "McDonnell Talks Super Tuesday". Interview with Jim Geraghty, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2012.

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• An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Atheist, What Matters, Belief

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• You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.

  Amy Dickinson

  Hurt, Women, Giving

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• The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Simple, Poetry, May

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• The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Validation, Rejection, Doe

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• Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There are basic tenants in Islam that we universally believe in but I think it's very naive to think that Sharia, that legal rulings are derived in a vacuum, that people do not bring their own histories and politics and social pledges to bear when they interpret the Koran.

  Mark Durie

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I have a merely ethical and moral relationship to collecting. Whereby I never collect things that I necessarily like. I collect things by young artists who don't have any money because I need to give them some money! Because I think that they should carry on whether I like it or not.

  Ryan Gander

  Thinking, Artist, Giving

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Men, Depth

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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• Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Law, Parent

  "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

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• The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process

  William Kentridge

  Drawing, Way, Moral

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• Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma or texts, or an absolutist moral creed. Instead, it expresses a philosophical and ethical point of view, and it draws upon the scientific method in formulationg its naturalistic view of the nature.

  Paul Kurtz

  Philosophical, Views, Afterlife

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• The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our members will be ambassadors for ethical hunting, respect for private property rights, support for conservation funding and programs that give our children the chance to learn the valuable lessons of nature.

  Gary Morris

  Children, Hunting, Rights

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• Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

  Gao Xingjian

  Literature, Moral, Mass

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• Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the first to outline clearly what one is tempted to call the elementary scene of ideology, its zero-level, which consists in asserting the (nameless) authority of some substantial Tradition.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Zero, Order, Levels

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• The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.

  Philip Zimbardo

  People, Firsts, Heat

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

  Patrick Carney

  Mixing, Code

  "The Black Keys on new album, rabid fans and Lana Del Rey". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.co.uk. May 13, 2014.

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• I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.

  Jack London

  Life, Spiritual, Sweet

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.7429, Delphi Classics

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• Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus.

  Felix Adler

  Spiritual, Cutting, Space

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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