#ethic

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. ↗

— William James

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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

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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

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I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics. ↗

— David E. Kelley

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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

#ethical #examination #issue #oriented #social

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires. ↗

— Ron Kind

#constraints #ethical #free #free world #i

Our Blessed Lord left the world without leaving any written message. His doctrine was Himself. Ideal and History were identified in Him. The truth that all other ethical teachers proclaimed, and the light that they gave to the world, was not IN them, but OUTSIDE them. Our Divine Lord, however, identified Divine Wisdom with Himself. It was the first time in history that it was ever done, and it has never been done since. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#jesus #morality #religion #life

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. ↗

— Hans Kung

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The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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