Quotes About Ethics

There is no doubt that the most heinous crimes warrant the death penalty.

Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.

Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result.

Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.

All wars are criminal.

I think, actually, any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the 'Star Wars' mode where, 'I've got to choose every good option.'

All government wars are unjust.

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.

Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?

All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.

'Star Wars' is very black and white, and honestly, I like it that way. But fantastical settings like that work best when the characters within them feel real. Real people have conflicts and make mistakes and get it wrong sometimes.

What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive.

When are boots in the ground no longer going to have to even be people, and is that right? When does it become 'Star Wars?' When is enough enough? When do we put this time and energy into eliminating war or reasons for war instead of creating new technology to make war easier for us?

Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.

When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.