Definition of Ethical

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Definition of Ethical
	Ethical Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy. Related Definitions: An, As, Belonging, Containing, Duties, Ethic, Ethical, Moral, Morality, Of, Or, Philosophy, System, The, To, Treating

Ethical Quotations

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Sigmund Freud

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Margaret Mead

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Omar N. Bradley

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Omar N. Bradley

Ethical Translations

ethical in Dutch is zedenkundig, ethisch
ethical in German is ethischen
ethical in Italian is etico
ethical in Swedish is etisk, moraliska, sedlig

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