There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.
The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of nature and above, descending into it; a historically supernatural movement on the world, that is visibly entered into it, and organized to be an institution in the person of Jesus Christ.
Buddhism’s cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.
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.
For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.
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.
If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.
I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible.
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.
Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is to produce a complete rule book that would be applicable to all cases.
Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior
The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.