#ethics

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine. ↗

— John Scott

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Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights. ↗

— Ron Silver

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At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places. ↗

— Peter Singer

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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. ↗

— Peter Singer

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I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics. ↗

— Peter Singer

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I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics. ↗

— Peter Singer

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More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. ↗

— Peter Singer

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