Ethical Quotes - Page 34

• Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Spiritual, Expression, Civilization

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• Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.

  Phil Zuckerman

  People, Treating Others, Belief

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• Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Teaching, Atheism, Examination

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• For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.

  Jack Beal

  Art, Years, Today

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• The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical demands of the universe. As Christians we owe our allegiance to God and His will, rather than to man and his folkways

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Christian, Men

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.128, Beacon Press

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• The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his ethical thought and all his concepts of morality; not the outcome of primitive credulity which a more "enlightened" age could outgrow, but the only answer to a real, basic need of man at all times and in all environments. In another word, it is an instinct.

  Muhammad Asad

  Spiritual, Religious, Real

  Muhammad Asad (1961). “The Principles of State and Government in Islam”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Concern For Others, People

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.315, Princeton University Press

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• To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway.

  Andrew Leigh

  Running, Responsible Business, Leader

  Andrew Leigh (2013). “Ethical Leadership: Creating and Sustaining an Ethical Business Culture”, p.6, Kogan Page Publishers

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• Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Honesty, Understanding

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.452, Running Press

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• Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Design, Growth, Transition

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• Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we know better?

  Peter Cheeke

  Writing, Essence, Ideas

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• The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

  Bill Mollison

  Children, Responsibility, Decision

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• An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Expectations, Doe, Ethics

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• Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

  Robert Motherwell

  Consciousness, Painter, Decorators

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

  Hugo Ball

  Ethics, Morality, Predicaments

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• Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

  Rollo May

  Nihilism, Becoming, Existential

  Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.36, Jason Aronson

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• I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

  Arthur Koestler

  Civilization, Ethics, Not Sure

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• Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

  Mark Twain

  God, Christian, Men

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old human life dancing like children and drinking wine like men; for Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom. But in the modern philosophy the case is opposite; it is its outer ring that is obviously artistic and emancipated; its despair is within.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Philosophy, Drinking

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

  Karl Brandt

  War, Obligation, Subordinates

  "Ethics of Nazi doctors analyzed in telecast" by Joanna Arnold, October 17, 2007.

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• The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was full of lies. (Winfrey said) the belief this book is changing the lives of people trumps the fact that maybe the story is a fake. You would expect somebody in her position would take the ethical stand.

  William Bastone

  Lying, Book, People

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• If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.

  D.B.C. Pierre

  Defeat, Models, Ifs

  DBC Pierre (2007). “Ludmila's Broken English: A Novel”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

  Margaret Halsey

  Stress, One Direction, Mobility

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• Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

  Dorothea Brande

  Philosophy, Mind, Prejudice

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.1, Lulu.com

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• All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

  Tacitus

  Exclusion, Moral, Ancient

  Cornelius Tacitus (1912). “Tacitus, The Histories”

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