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“Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.”

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Book:Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members”

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Author:Francis Fukuyama

“No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

“Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?”

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Book:Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind

Source: Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind

“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.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.”

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Author:Vinoba Bhave

“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; 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.”

“A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.”

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.”

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”

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Author:Aldo Leopold

“Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.”

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Author:Robert K. Greenleaf

“The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.”

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Author:Earl Warren

“Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.”

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Author:Charlie Chaplin