Ethical Quotes - page 3

Spinoza, for example, thought that insight into the essence of reality, into the harmonious structure of the eternal universe, necessarily awakens love for this universe. For him, ethical conduct is entirely determined by such insight into nature, just as our devotion to a person may be determined by insight into his greatness or genius. Fears and petty passions, alien to the great love of the universe, which is logos itself, will vanish, according to Spinoza, once our understanding of reality is deep enough. (Max Horkheimer)
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways. View quote
Franz Boas
Ethical individualism... is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life. View quote
Rudolf Steiner
If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyrannical: only brute force (or seductive deception) can then bend the different moralities so that they fit the prescriptions of a single ethical system. And indeed, the idea of universal laws of nature and society arose in connection with a life-and-death battle: the battle that gave Zeus the power over the Titans and all other gods and thus turned his laws into the laws of the universe. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution. View quote
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
Education is the art of making man ethical. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Without "ethical culture," there is no salvation for humanity. View quote
Albert Einstein
What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy. (John Ralston Saul)
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. View quote
Andrew Leigh
But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time. View quote
Shari Arison
We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues. View quote
Bill Joy
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern. View quote
Daniel Dennett
From what can "ought" be derived. The most compelling answer is this: ethics must be somehow based on an appreciation of human nature - on a sense of what a human being is or might be, and on what a human being might want to have or want to be. If that is naturalism, then naturalism is no fallacy. No one could seriously deny that ethics is responsive to such facts about human nature. We may just disagree about where to look for the most compelling facts about human nature -n novels, in religious texts, in psychological experiments, in biological or anthropological investigations. The fallacy is not naturalism but, rather, any simple-minded attempt to rush from facts to values. In other words, the fallacy is greedy reductionism of values to facts, rather than reductionism considered more circumspectly, as the attempt to unify our world-view so that out ethical principles don't clash irrationally with the way the world is. View quote
Daniel Dennett
It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals. View quote
Arthur Keith
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole. View quote
Arthur Keith
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. (Arthur Levitt Jr)
My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something. View quote
Bonnie Hammer
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice. View quote
Corliss Lamont
The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately. View quote
Catherine Bell
We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social. View quote
David E. Kelley