Ethics Quotes
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I cannot understand why anyone would want to voluntarily give up an item like a rosary, Bible or photo of their child, or for that matter an extra pair of shoes, pants, shirt or jacket, these are pictures of how people and their personal belongings are treated. If someone wants to judge the ethics and morality of all this, it is up to them to decide what is right and what is wrong and, if they choose to do so, to act upon those feelings.
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In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
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Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They must constantly demonstrate to courts and legislatures alike the tragic results of legal nonintervention. They must highlight how legal doctrines no longer bear any relation to reality, whether in landlord and tenant law, holder in due course law, or any other law. In sum, lawyers must bring real morality into the legal consciousness
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Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
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My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
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Change can only come from local citizens and politicians - it cannot be imposed by well-meaning foreigners - not least because a society like Afghanistan or Iraq is suspicious of outsiders and often resistant to change. I am not going to get drawn into the ethics of intervening in other countries. My concern is the practical question. Can you actually achieve change in this way? My guess is we can stop wars sometimes as in the Balkans and topple regimes - but that the other stuff - such as corruption is not within our power to effect and alter.
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We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.
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It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.
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Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
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We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies.
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All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
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Land-use ethics are still governed wholly by economic self-interest, just as social ethics were a century ago.
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Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.
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I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.
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Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.
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A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.
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Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
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This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
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A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
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On the GamerGate Controversy: Ethics in journalism is not what's happening, in any way.
