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~ Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ 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

~ To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development. ~

Felix Adler

~ Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ~

Freda Adler

~ A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Change is one thing, progress is another. "Change" is scientific, "progress" is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. ~

Bertrand Arthur William Russell

~ By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind. ~

Chuang Tzu

~ Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ~

Freda Adler

~ Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena. ~

H. Jay Dinsah

~ In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of another. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. ~

Immanuel Kant

~ The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible. ~

Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi or Tolstoy

~ You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics. ~

Massad Ayoob

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