Quotes About Ethics

Can companies just claim a total lack of political responsibility in how their technology is used in all instances? It's something that companies should be thinking about when they sell their technologies around the world.

I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.

I'm totally against the death penalty - which, if anyone has a right to support, I do - because I do not see it as a deterrent to crime.

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

I totally reject and have rejected throughout my entire career the proposition that the end justifies the means or that a judge should decide cases based on a desire to reach a certain outcome.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

Bisping is a clean athlete, and it comes down to whether you're clean or not. I'm totally against the use of drugs and steroids in the UFC and any performance enhancing drugs. Shows a lot about someone's mental state if they have to do that.

I don't follow all the 48 laws. Like, I've never crushed anyone totally.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it.

Not only is fur cruel, it's also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me!

Our best theories of people, presented on their own terms and without reference to underlying particles and forces, leave plenty of room for human choice.

There's only one God—everything else is metaphor.' Now, strip away all the metaphors, and what is the one single commandment common to every decent religion ever known?" "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." "Exactly. Every religion in human history has had a variation of it, but why do so few people live by it? Because of all the other crap, because of the metaphors.

when the ethics of your profession conflict with your ethics as a human being, well, then there's just something wrong with your profession

I don't believe in God because there is one, I believe in God because there should be.

There are no good guys in this game. There's only bad guys, and less bad guys.

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.

Obama warned in October 2019. "The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws."31

How can [Germany] be criticized for making things that people actually want to buy? And why encourage Germans to buy things they don't need with money they don't have?

We're constantly confronted with the lazy, the apathetic, the immoral, the indifferent, the irresponsible, and the disconnected—the signs of a decaying culture.

this we can see the necessity of being willing to fight for your creations. Morgan and Edison weren't satisfied with trying to ruin Tesla through capitalistic competition—they were resorting to outright depravity

One of the hardest lessons we all have to learn is how few choices life gives to a civilized woman with any conscience at all.

Morality has its own civil wars, with its own victims in its own time and place.