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Letter "E" » Ethics
«The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.»
Author: Felix Adler
| About:
Ethics,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
affirmation, as such, hideous, morally, outcry, per se, Philosophy of, respected, revered, violated
«The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation»
Author: Jeremy Bentham
(Activist, Philosopher)
| About:
Ethics,
Happiness
| Keywords:
legislation, morals, The Foundation
«The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Ethics
| Keywords:
ethics, evolution, first step, solidarity, step in
«The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Ethics,
Quality
| Keywords:
articulation, profundities, profundity, qualities
«The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.-»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Compassion,
Ethics,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
attain, breadth, breadths, depth, embraces, ethics, in breadth, in secret, limit, take root
«The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart»
«The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.»
«The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Ethics
| Keywords:
decayed, hurts, morals, nations, teeth, tooth decay
«The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Conscience,
Ethics,
Freedom,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
In this World, small voice, Small World, tyrant, voice
«The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.»
Author: Zig Ziglar
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Ethics
| Keywords:
arsenal, arsenals, entire, integrity, persuasion, persuasions, tool
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