Quotes About Ethics

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

Reading builds character and increases knowledge.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.

Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz

By turning back on verbal littering, you are suggesting that it's okay to junk the world.

I'm a diplomat, I make myself agreeable to some of the most vile people on earth

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person.

I wasn't happy about it, but I respected their decision. Every now and then you had to break the rules to do the right thing, but a lot of times following the rules was the right thing.

Cruelty to prisoners the Nazis could abide. But not cruelty to animals.

An infectious greed seemed to grip much of our business community…. It is not that humans have become any more greedy than in generations past. It is that the avenues to express greed have grown so enormously.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

government regulation cannot substitute for individual integrity.

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

Did nobody spank their children these days?

there are ways to be dishonest that fall short of actual lying.

According to "Clement," when the Christians talked about loving your enemies, their neighbors had been interested. But when they found that the Christians didn't do what they said, they dismissed Christianity as "a myth and a delusion." From Clement's perspective, Christians had to embody the message if the churches were to grow.

As Cyprian puts it near the start of his treatise, "We know virtues by their practice rather than through boasting of them."71 If patience is not good in the lived experience of humans, it isn't worth talking about.72

Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.

You are a manipulator when you try to persuade people to do something that is not in their best interests but is in yours. You are a motivator when you find goals that will be good for both sides, then weld together a high-achieving, high-morale partnership to achieve them.

Catch One: The Case of Edmund Rosner

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"