Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felix Adler

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

Ethics is everything, ... If you don't have a strong moral standing, if you don't have an ethical foundation, you just crumble.

Robert Clarke

We tried very, very hard to make a product which was first morally and ethically correct. To do that, we only work with a person's own blood.

What the American people are witnessing is a successful cover-up of serious ethical wrongdoing, ... a sight to behold.

Donald Kennedy

At the time of publication, we felt on ethically solid ground.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

Michael Josephson

The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.

Ian Wilmut

I personally have still not heard a potential use of this technique, to produce a new person, that I would find ethically acceptable, ... ...on that basis, I hope that you're wrong.

I've known Jim Letten personally and professionally and I know he has a marvelous reputation in law enforcement, ... He's an honorable and ethical man and an extraordinary public servant.

Irving Babbitt

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Before the U.S. government condones with federal funding research that results in the destruction of living human embryos, we have the moral obligation to explore and exhaust every ethical alternative,

Clare Short

The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"

Mahatma Gandhi

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

The ethical standard is pretty much universal. It's the same reason physicians can't be involved in coerced interrogations.

the legal, political, moral and ethical importance of this vote.

John F. Kennedy

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

John F. Kennedy

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Susan Sontag

The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.

Roland Barthes

One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exist and are produced and are consumes ... Such a reversal necessarily raises the ethical question: not that the image is immoral, irreligious, or diabolic (as some have declared it, upon the advent of the Photograph), but because, when generalized, it completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it.