Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
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.
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.
Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.
Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.
I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.
In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist version of what I would see as Christ's messianic ethical communism, to say the least - is a new civil religion, a civil religion of freedom.
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.
The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept the legends in order to get the ethics. Fundamentalists make a grave mistake to insist on the letter of the writings, because they drive away many who can't swallow the Adam-and-Eve bit.
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.
To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives. . . the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.