#ethics

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.

#being #country #ethics #finest #guardian

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

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

— Ron Silver

#ethics #gets #human #human rights #laugh

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

— Peter Singer

#compromise #ethics #expediency #more #often

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values. ↗

— Peter Singer

#before #business #courses #ethics #ever

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life. ↗

— Peter Singer

#broader #ethics #focused #how #i

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals. ↗

— Peter Singer

#ethics #face #family #good #good life

For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl and therefore worthy of praise. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#feminism #purity-myth #virginity #america

A quiet conscience makes one strong! ↗

— Anne Frank

#integrity #morality #peace #spirituality #strength

Without ethics, science would be cruelty. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#humanity #science #science-fiction #science