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At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.
We are fighting corruption and all illegal activities and building a culture of transparency and ethical governance.
I believe in the power of a positive, high-performance culture, which begins with strong ethical values at the core.
In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.
At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.
It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.
The ethical code of my upbringing was be good to people and try not to hurt them. You don't need a god to tell you that.
Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.
Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.
The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.
By the way, I'm not a vegetarian. I have a lot of respect for people who are vegetarian for religious or ethical reasons.
We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.
Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.
Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.
I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.
We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the persuadee.
Even if we wanted to imbue an autonomous vehicle with an ethical engine, we don't have the technical capability today to do so.
Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.
Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.
The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.
There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.
Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.
The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.
Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.
My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.
It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
I understand why foreign government contributions to the Clinton Foundation could raise ethical issues should Hillary run for president.
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.
Don't even get me started. I'm not against all vegetarians. But if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm.
In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story.
I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?
While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.