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I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

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.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

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.

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and thin what we ought to do about it.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

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.

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

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.

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

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.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!