#ethic

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax. ↗

— Bob Riley

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The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing. ↗

— David Rockefeller

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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

#economic #ethical #humanity #production #side

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it. ↗

— Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

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The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome. ↗

— Adebowale Ojowuro

#ethics-and-moral-philosophy #freethought #new-book #religion #scepticism

I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code. ↗

— Michael Moore

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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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I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

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

— William James

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