A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
Donald Norman

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.
Vinoba Bhave

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Albert Schweitzer

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William James

And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical.
Jane Mayer

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.
Roger Mudd

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 Singer

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
Hans Kung

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
Lafcadio Hearn

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
Orson Welles

Education is the art of making man ethical.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
Robert Sheckley

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
Lee R. Raymond

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Felix Adler

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

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.
Friedrich Schleiermacher

Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.
Charles E. Wilson

He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.
Lee R. Raymond

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
Corliss Lamont