Quotes About Ethics

You yourself would never have done such things! But you yourself will never have had to.

His generation believed that if there was trouble all you'd have to do was shoot someone and then it would be okay.

Yes, the thought-experiment penises can get out of control

Ed, knows power corrupts, they'll have experienced that first-hand. They'll see how I'd be tempted to use my own power for personal reasons. They may not approve of that, but they'll buy

Once they tried to save something, others or their own souls.

Everyone likes to think they are doing good while at the same time pocketing a bag of cash

A medida que ha mejorado nuestra capacidad para matar, también nos hemos vuelto menos tolerantes con la violencia.

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!

He wasn't a gentleman and there was no telling what men would do when they weren't gentlemen. There was no standard to judge them by.

Times never change when there's a need for honest work to be done.

The cause didn't seem sacred to her. The war did not seem to be holy affair.

Influence is everything, and guilt or innocence merely an academic question.

This is war time. We can't think of the proprieties now.

When Scarlett was seeing Rhett to the door, she asked indignantly: "If it were you, wouldn't you enlist with the Yankees to keep from dying in that place and then desert?" "Of course," said Rhett, his teeth showing beneath his mustache. "Then why didn't Ashley do it?" "He's a gentleman," said Rhett, and Scarlett wondered how it was possible to convey such cynicism and contempt in that one honorable word.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

Ethics change with technology.

I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.