One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook’s supposedly ethical foreign policy. – Harold Pinter
Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint. – Hassan Rouhani
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. – Irving Babbitt
An ethical man doesn’t need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible. – Joseph Brodsky
Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don’t know the answer. – Jennifer Doudna
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards. – Johan Huizinga
To believe in ‘the greater good’ is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension. – Joan Didion
An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms. – Adam Michnik
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
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday. – Felix Adler
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole. – Felix Adler
We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social. – David E. Kelley
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
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas. – David Zabel
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. – Felix Adler
Praxeology – economics – provides no ultimate ethical judgments: it simply furnishes the indispensable data necessary to make such judgments. – Murray Rothbard
It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that. – Edward Tufte
There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be kept closed, on prudential or ethical grounds. – Martin Rees
Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons. – Evan Bayh
I don’t claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn’t there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials? – Mark McKinnon
Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo. – Pankaj Mishra
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. – Mary McCarthy
If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. – Margaret Atwood
