Quotes About Ethics

The old saying "All is fair in love and war" might be true for love but it is patently untrue for war.

**(C)(P) PHARMAGENOCIDE- THE CATALYZING EFFECT IN WHICH PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE OR DIFFICULT FOR THE ORDINARY PERSON TO BUY THEIR MEDICATIONS BECAUSE OF THE HIGH PRICE OF MEDICINES, SUCH THAT MANY END UP DYING.

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too.

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate...

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

What the fuck is legal in this universe? Stars eat each other, wolves eat the pigs, and Grandma fucks over Little Red Riding Hood.

I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets!

Didn't we all grow up understanding that bribes and payoffs - - by whatever name or rationale - - were bad. And that people were supposed to be the focal point of society, not money?

Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth.

have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. 1743-1826 THIRD PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. AUTHOR OF THE U.S. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

We come from goldfish, essentially, but that [doesn't] mean we turned around and killed all the goldfish. Maybe [the AIs] will feed us once a week…. If you had a machine with a 10 to the 18th power IQ over humans, wouldn't you want it to govern, or at least control your economy? —SETH SHOSTAK

Contemporary philosopher Max More describes the goal of humanity as a transcendence to be "achieved through science and technology steered by human values.

Given that self-improving strong AI cannot be recalled, Yudkowsky points out that we need to "get it right the first time," and that its initial design must have "zero nonrecoverable errors."45

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to our deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. —LEON KASS, CHAIR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON BIOETHICS, 2003

People often go through three stages in considering the impact of future technology: awe and wonderment at its potential to overcome age-old problems; then a sense of dread at a new set of grave dangers that accompany these novel technologies; followed finally by the realization that the only viable and responsible path is to set a careful course that can realize the benefits while managing the dangers.

While I probably should have mentioned that you shouldn't try this in a real moving car (but then I assume you have already mastered the rule that you shouldn't drive with your eyes closed), that's not really the key problem here.

Por alguna razón, la gente que tiene muchísimo dinero suele ser la que menos paga. Eso me pone malo, y entonces pago aún más, para que no se me note.

This traditional woman grew up in a world where respect for the animals hunted was of paramount importance. A concept that, in many cases, differentiates the native from the non-native hunter.

To do the job which you've got really well; so well that you don't lose your self-respect doing it':

the imagination to see, the strength to achieve, and an absolutely incorruptible moral integrity'.