Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced."
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Ethical
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Hugo Ball
Poet, Dadaist
"Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms."
Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher, Cultural Critic
"The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible."
Albert Schweitzer
Philosopher, Theologian
"Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals."
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"The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon."
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"Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis."
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"To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension."
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"Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality."
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"Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask."
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"The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this."
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"I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work."
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"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty."
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"... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene."
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"It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding."
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"My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal."
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"I find shoes difficult to be ethical about."
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"It is vital to any organization, to be strong and effective, to be ethical."
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"There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves."
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"The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole."
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"Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science."
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