Quotes with ethical

  • I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
  • Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question ''Have we anything to eat?'' will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
  • The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

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  • Carl Honore Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Betty Comden At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
    Betty Comden
    American musician and writer of screenplays (1917 - 2006)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Education is the art of making man ethical.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Hugo Ball Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question ''Have we anything to eat?'' will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
    Hugo Ball
    German author and poet (1886 - 1927)
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  • Aldous Huxley Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Sigmund Freud I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Mary McCarthy In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Carroll Quigley Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Margaret Mead It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Aneurin Bevan No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Oscar Wilde No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aneurin Bevan No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Arthur Levitt Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Freda Adler Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
    Freda Adler
    American criminologist and educator (1934 - )
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  • Ken Blanchard 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.
    Ken Blanchard
    American writer
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  • 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.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Ben Carson Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • 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.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Arthur Keith 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.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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