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• We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  May, Honey, Bees

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• The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called "the permanent things"-the norms of human action.

  Russell Kirk

  Art, Book, Taken

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• It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I say I can't remember. I'm just appalled by the memoirs published by people who regurgitate dialogue, conversations from when they were small children, and they go on for three or four pages. I can't even remember what we said to each other ten minutes ago! How can I remember what was said sixty years ago? It's not possible.

  Paul Auster

  Children, Years, People

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.

  Raymond Chandler

  Funny, Men, People

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• When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

  C. S. Lewis

  Decay, Holy Places, Amulets

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.403, Cambridge University Press

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• Yes, your jewelry choices make a difference. When you invest in ethical, heirloom-quality jewelry, you're also investing in the future. Your purchase supports a creative community of like-minded humanitarians, out there doing important work.

  Zoe Helene

  Differences, Choices, Support

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• What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it.

  Cornel West

  Mean, Exercise, Talking

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• Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Self Esteem, Compassion, Achievement

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• People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

  John C. Maxwell

  Character, People, Choices

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Spiritual, Individual, Mass

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.

  George W. Bush

  Business, Ethical Standards, Law

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• I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants.

  Philip Wollen

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Failure, Responsibility

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.

  Ted Koppel

  Inspiring, Practice, Morality

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• By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Nature, Animal

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Jewels, Risk, Important

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• The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Oneness, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ethical Principles, Leader, Enthusiasm

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• Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.

  M. Scott Peck

  Leadership, Mean, Groups

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• Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Integrity, Reading, Intellectual

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.82, Macmillan

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• The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception. A human being is there. I separate the topic of abortion from any specifically religious notions. It is a scientific problem. Not to allow the further development of a being which already has all the genetic code of a human being is not ethical. The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill someone who cannot defend himself.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Children, Rights

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• Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, People, Survival

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• Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.

  Harvey Mackay

  Decision, Doubt, Interest

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• But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Commitment, Garden, Goats

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

  Daniel Smith

  Regret, Educational, Feelings

  Daniel Smith (2013). “Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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