Quotes about Ethical Evaluation

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.

As long as I don't commit any crimes, you have no right to judge me except by my performance as a professional. On that level, you're welcome to think whatever you want about me.

they start with the things they value most, then work backward to ask whether a given new technology performs more harm than good with respect to these values.

No man is to be judged by the mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them.

while the lives saved by the drug might not be accounted for anywhere.

If even someone like Chuck, one of the sharts of humanity, eventually saw Trump for the malevolent con man that he is, what does that say about the rest who still excuse him?

The conscience within man is always either excusing or accusing.

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

It is not hatred that is wrong; it is hating the wrong thing that is wrong. It is not anger that is wrong; it is being angry at the wrong thing that is wrong. Tell me your enemy, and I will tell you what you are. Tell me your hatred, and I will tell you your character.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

The Moral Sense Test developed by Harvard psychologists in 2003 can be found online at: moral.wjh.harvard.edu

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

If we objectively balance the good things Ali did against the bad, there's no question he's ultimately heroic. But that's not the issue. The issue is that these kinds of questions are never weighed objectively. That's not how the court of public opinion operates.

Good—bad—indifferent.

What is detestable in a pig is more detestable in a boy.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.

No hay criterio definitivo que pueda demostrar la bondad o maldad de un juicio ético. Que

I will criticize individuals when they deserve criticism, but I will not condemn entire populations. We have seen where that leads.

Dia mesti mencamkan bahwa tak seorang pun berhak dinilai atau dihakimi berdasarkan korespondensi pribadinya.

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Por fortuna parati, nosotros los británicos no juzgamos el grado de civilización de un hombre por la amabilidad con que trata a sus amigos, sino por la compasión que demuestra para con sus enemigos

judges are men who in the cool of the evening undo work that better men do in the heat of the day.