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• Where defining foreign policy as ‘ethical’ went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

  William Hague

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• 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.

  Peter Albert David Singer

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• What I’m doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what’s legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

  Lisa Scottoline

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• Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the facts may play, we march always in the ranks of honor. If a man has greatness in him, it comes to light-not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

  Beryl Markham

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• A good person in the worst sense of the word.

  Mark Twain

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• It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

  Edward Tufte

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• For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I’m doing the right thing by the animals.

  Alexandra Paul

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• I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we’re seeing is she’s breaking that promise every day.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

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• There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

  Bertrand Russell

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• 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 Albert David Singer

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• I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

  Peter Albert David Singer

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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

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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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