Ethical Quotes
-
I believe this choice is ethical, and what makes it ethical is it is a choice.
Brittany Maynard
-
Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.
Karl Brandt
-
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.
Nicolae Ceausescu
-
Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.
William James
-
My mother is a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.
Harry Connick, Jr.
-
It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.
Terence McKenna
-
It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.
Josh Charles
-
The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
Stephen Covey
-
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William James
-
Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.
Herbert Spencer
-
There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
Stephen Covey
-
The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.
Hilary Mantel
