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There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.
Aga Khan IV
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It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.
Edward Tufte
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Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
Lafcadio Hearn
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The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.
Michael Greger
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
Aldous Huxley
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You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
Aldo Leopold
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To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.
Gary Steiner
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
Ingrid Newkirk
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For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior
Manmohan Singh
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The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
Benito Mussolini
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WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
Julian Assange
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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
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Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.
Price Pritchett
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If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.
Henry Kravis
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If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members
Francis Fukuyama
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The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.
Slavoj Žižek
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I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.
Arthur Koestler
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The permaculture's whole principle of having to work with nature, rather than fight against it, is not just an ethical restraint. It's also about realizing you're not the one in control. Nature is not only a nurturer but also a great destroyer.
David Holmgren
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Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.
Karl Brandt
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We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
Aldo Leopold
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If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.
John Templeton
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Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
Hermann Broch
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The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.
Leo Tolstoy
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Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.
Gao Xingjian
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With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible.
Dharma Mittra
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Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
Lee R. Raymond
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The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.
Ivan Illich
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If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely.
Ricky Gervais
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The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.
Michael Josephson
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For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.
John Kinsella
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
Felix Adler
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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.
Luc Montagnier
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Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
Albert Schweitzer
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Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.
Marc Andreessen
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Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.
William E. Simon
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Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
Robert Sheckley
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We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.
David E. Kelley
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Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
William Fleming
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Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
Mark Buchanan
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In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
Jerry Pournelle
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The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side
Francis Parker Yockey
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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.
Daniel Dennett
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Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.
Harvey Mackay
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To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
Joan Didion
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I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
Adolf Hitler
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Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
Swami Vivekananda