Top 34 Ethical Philosophy Quotes
#1. What kind of ethical philosophy is it that condemns every child, even before it is born, to inherit the sin of a remote ancestor? Augustine,
Richard Dawkins
#2. Netiquette: The social code of network communication. Internet code of conduct based on the Golden Rule. Ethical philosophy of common rules.
David Chiles
#3. Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
John Calvin
#4. The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.
Paul Hawken
#6. Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes our
beliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.
Greta Christina
#7. The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.
Angelus Silesius
#8. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.
Samuel Chadwick
#9. Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
Robert Sheckley
#10. If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act accordingly, the resulting change would be more significant than any change of government,
Peter Singer
#11. She is not philosophy, I am not an ethical question. I will not risk my existence to satisfy your curiosity.
Heidi Heilig
#12. Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. The greatest ethical test that we're ever going to face is the treatment of those who are at our mercy.
Lyn White
#14. Is it not strange that men are so keen to fight for religion and so unkeen to live according to its precepts?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#15. The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.
Ralph Nader
#16. In short, bioethics investigates ethical issues arising in the life sciences (medicine, health care, genetics, biology, research, etc) by applying the principles and methods of moral philosophy to these problems.
Adele Langlois
#17. What's the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
#18. Your blindness to my downfall,
Has gone too far to be a joke,
As I stand ablaze before you,
And you tell me you smell smoke.
Erin Hanson
#19. We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
William Graham Sumner
#20. With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
Alan Lightman
#21. An ethical idealist, a person whom embraces the honorable philosophy of ethical idealism, performs acts that are honest, pure, and righteous regardless of their fearfulness.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#22. To be ethical, never think of anything unethical. To be moral, never hurt anyone.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.
Paul Kurtz
#24. That businesspeople buy low and sell high in a particularly alert and advantageous way does not make them bad unless all trading is bad, unless when you yourself shop prudently you are bad, unless any tall poppy needs to be cut down, unless we wish to run our ethical lives on the sin of envy.
Deirdre N. McCloskey
#25. I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
John Stuart Mill
#26. If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?
Chuck Klosterman
#27. Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
Bertrand Russell
#28. In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ...
Aldous Huxley
#29. Morality is societal, but kindness is universal. Be kind even if it not always ethical.
Debasish Mridha
#30. With film, you read the whole script three or four times, and you really have a solid blueprint of who your character is. Whereas in television, that blueprint is constantly changing and adapting, and sometimes you have to take a risk.
Graham Phillips
#31. Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.
Dorothea Brande
#32. Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
#33. I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen ... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.
Darren Criss
#34. Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.
Linda Fisher Thornton
