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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. (Quote by - Kate Millett)

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics. (Quote by - Corliss Lamont)

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights. (Quote by - Ron Silver)

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics. (Quote by - Bille August)

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)

To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival. (Quote by - Barbara Ward)

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand. (Quote by - Louise Slaughter)

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel. (Quote by - Antoine Fuqua)

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. (Quote by - Arthur Keith)

When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward. (Quote by - Swedish proverb)

Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught. (Quote by - Peter Lord)

Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical, and religious dry-rot of the modern world. (Quote by - F. E. Abbot)

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. (Quote by - Earl Warren)

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. (Quote by - A. J. Ayer)

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind. (Quote by - Chuang Tzu)

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. (Quote by - Omar Nelson Bradley)

Ethical living is the indispensable condition of all that is most worthwhile in the world. (Quote by - Ernest Caldecott)

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. (Quote by - Jello Biafra)

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. (Quote by - Potter Stewart)

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