Quotes About Ethics

In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and denigration of the animals because we will have made them up.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them.

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all.

A search engine can determine who shall live and who shall die.

Before we choose our tools and technology, we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them more unobtainable.

Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.

I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it.

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

Unthankfulness is theft.

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

There are many ways of giving thanks. Eating turkeys doesn't have to be one of them.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.