Ethics Quotes - Page 39

• We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental' moral philosophy and moral psychology. As a result, we understand better why moral formulas are experienced as ineluctable commands, even if there is no commander and even if the notion of an inescapable obligation is just superstition. So moral philosophy has made huge progress.

  Catherine Wilson

  Philosophy, Psychology, Progress

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Ideas, Principles, Helping

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a rather new adventure. Let's wait and see what will happen!

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Religious, Adventure, Waiting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

  Lola Kirke

  Boys, Rocks, Work Ethic

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 2016.

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• We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

  Norman Lear

  Christian, Couple, Silly

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I played with English and Sociology in college but dropped out to work in the anti-war movement. I was going around denouncing the Viet Nam war as immoral but one day it dawned on me that I didn't know what that meant. I signed up for an ethics class at San Francisco State to find out the answer.

  Dale Jamieson

  War, College, Class

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

  Dale Jamieson

  Behavior, Margins

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics.

  Dale Jamieson

  Psychology, Humans

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In trying to develop an impartial, expansive ethic we are trying to get ethical systems to do something which they did not evolve in order to do. This doesn't mean that it can't be done or that we shouldn't try to expand the reach of our ethical frameworks, only that there are reasons to be skeptical about its success.

  Dale Jamieson

  Mean, Order, Trying

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

  Paul Gigot

  Government, Once In A Lifetime, Republican

  "Trump's First Hundred Days?". A transcript of the weekend's program on FOX News Channel, www.wsj.com. October 23, 2016.

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• The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Data, Training, Statistics

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Most people don't have any association in their minds with what they do and with ethics. They think they somehow moved past the questions of morality or values or ethics, and that's something that I've never imagined to be true.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Thinking, Past, People

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Critical Analysis, Cost

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace a survival of the fittest ethic, promoting conformity over dissent, the strong over the weak, and fear over responsibility, it also gives rise to what David Graeber has called a "language of command" in which violence becomes the most important element of power and mediating force in shaping social relationships.

  Henry Giroux

  Strong, War, Moving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Under my contract with the American voter, we are proposing a series of ethics reforms on day one to end government corruption. They include a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Term Limits, American Voters

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• There is a peak and valley to careers and that includes fame. If you are lucky to ride this wave of fame to a plateau - it won't last there. I guess it is just a blue-collar work ethic that I was raised with.

  Bryan Cranston

  Blue, Careers, Work Ethic

  "Bryan Cranston talks about ex who threatened to kill him". Associated Press interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 27, 2016.

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• We saw his [Donald Trump] children appointed this week to formal roles in the transition. A lot of ethics experts looking at that and saying that there is not a blind trust.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Children, Transition, Experts

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Who you really are, is an immaterial soul and the body is an external thing that's sort of an encrustation your soul. So this has important implications for Plotinus' ethics, because his ethics are basically all about encouraging us to turn away from the body and turn towards these higher principles, so universal soul, universal intellect and ultimately the One.

  Peter Adamson

  Soul, Important, Principles

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The Bible is a book that has shaped my life, my beliefs, my ethics, my moral concerns, my religious outlook. This is not something, however, that I have taught or written about. This has been, if you wish, a private aspect.

  Hershel Shanks

  Religious, Book, Wish

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Morality is a private and costly luxury.

  Henry Adams

  Luxury, Morality, Privacy

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 22

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• History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Victory, Conflict, Economics

  "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.

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• The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

  Aristotle

  Life, Success, Philosophical

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• The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

  Aristotle

  Truth, Honesty, Deviation

  Aristotle (2015). “On The Heavens”, p.10, Aristotle

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• I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

  Richard Bach

  Respect, Love Relationship, Want

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• During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

  Bernard Baruch

  Character, Technology, Thinking

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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