Ethics : (34)

" I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct. " - Jonathan Sacks

" The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture. " - Gaylord Nelson

" Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively. " - Julien Baker

" 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

" Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. " - Karl Kraus

" As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to ‘free market eugenics’. " - Sam Brownback

" Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. " - Arnold J. Toynbee

" Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink. " - Ephraim Mirvis

" 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

" The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster. " - Sheri Fink