Quotes About Ethics

Don't get caught." This from a man who'd stolen a Jew. From

You save someone. You kill them.

When they come and ask you for one of your children," Barbara Steiner explained, to no one in particular, "you're supposed to say yes.

We might be criminals, but we're not totally immoral. - Arthur Berg

So much good, so much evil. Just add water

he had nothing to give, except maybe Mein Kampf, and there was no way he'd give such propaganda to a young German girl. That would be like the lamb handing a knife to the butcher.

Qué gran maldad puede encubrir la prolongación de una vida.

But Hans Junior wasn't finished. He stepped closer and said, "You're either for the Führer or against him—and I can see that you're against him. You always have been." Liesel watched Hans Junior in the face, fixated on the thinness of his lips and the rocky line of his bottom teeth. "It's pathetic—how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

When building monsters don't be surprised when they become monstrous.

Woman breed baby, but man can only make Frankenstein.

In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: "We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental.

Homer's Iliad was the cultural encyclopedia of pre-literate Greece, the didactic vehicle that provided men with guidance for the management of their spiritual, ethical, and social lives.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)

Einstein's Monsters, by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein's monsters, not fully human, not for now.

He tortured, not to force you to reveal a fact, but to force you to collude in a fiction.

Whereas I would argue that style is morality: morality detailed, configured, intensified. It's not in the mere narrative arrangement of good and bad that morality makes itself felt. It can be there in every sentence

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

Leibniz's machine was designed to automate the dreary task of solving moral problems

There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.

Justice will be found, said Plato, when everyone does their own job, and minds their own business

Out of them all, Socrates is the hardest to deconstruct... Indeed, he may just be indeconstructible.