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

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.
John Scott

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.
Roger Mudd

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
Theodor Adorno

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
Kate Millett

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
Jello Biafra

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.
Richard Curtis

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
Huston Smith

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
Bille August

The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.
Michael D. Higgins

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
Leon Kass

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
Steve Odland

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
Grace Slick

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.
Louise Slaughter

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
Christopher Dawson

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
Marty Meehan

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.
Peter Singer