Quotes About Ethics

Others spoke piously since, being old, they could follow no course but virtue.

There is an important distinction to be drawn between tolerance of homosexuality and tolerance of sex tourism.

If you help a person to get better by erasing that person, what kind of a job have you done?

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

Artificial intelligence is very powerful and it can help us do amazing things, but it also has the potential to do great harm. We need to approach it with caution, and we need to make sure that we're thinking about the long-term implications of the technology.

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

I took notes as they divided the world between those who had stuff taken away from them, and those who took, those who did bad things in a good way- gracefully, effortlessly- and those bumblers who bumbled their way through life.

And then I remembered the truck my aunt had stolen, and I wondered if my aunt was rich or if she'd just stolen from rich people, or if there was a difference. My aunt, I suspected, would say that there was no difference. As for John Calvin, he once said that "the torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

But he was sick of this charade. Sick of watching people lose a little more of their humanity each day, and sick to death of seeing people tortured in the name of God. What had happened to these people?

The truth is there is no Devil making you torture, rape, murder, and sodomize one another, or making you destroy the very land that feeds you. There is only you.

You just might make a good devil yet.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

It's as if the concept of taxation as theft—rather than as a shared burden that all should contribute toward as the cost of maintaining a civil society—is now so widely shared that many people applaud those who have figured out how to game the system and pay less than their fair share rather than condemn them as social parasites who claim society's benefits without paying for them.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

There's nothing better than a rigged election, so long as you're the one rigging it.

En política, llegar al poder nunca tiene que ver con hacer lo correcto. Siempre tiene que ver con hacer lo que conviene.

Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder.

As the young have discovered, the secret divinity of the twentieth century is Science. But Science is incapable of forming character. The more people talk of human sciences, the less effect human sciences have on man.

Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.