Quotes About Ethics

So many girls and boys are looking up to me, and I have to conduct myself in a way that I don't disappoint too many people and I don't generate any kind of hate or propaganda for any reason. And I think we all should do that.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it.

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

I was never going to do anything that would have brought shame to my family. I owed too much, and I wanted them to be proud to say that they were Bruno Sammartino's mother and father.

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking.

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.' My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us. It's a tool that's going to empower us.

The old way of doing 'good business' was based on the principle, 'the ends justifies the means.' In the future, good business will invoke 'the means justifying the ends.' The E P&L can already serve as an important tool to help this shift in commerce from generating profits with collateral damages to profits with collateral benefits.

Although I am a Christian, with what religion has become - a tool for so much of the bad stuff - I just say to people that I'm a person of faith.

Waterboarding should never be used as an interrogation tool. It is beneath our values.

Most of us marvel at the ingenuity and imaginativeness of sting operations, defend their right to exist and will argue that if well-used, they are an invaluable tool for justice.

Textbook journalism everywhere in the world has always frowned upon the sting as a tool of reporting.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

It's not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.

Tools are not neutral. The computer is not a neutral tool.