Quotes About Ethics

that things like 'onor, and justice, and love are the most important things in the world and that it's up to each and every one of us to always try to be the best person we can possibly be.

The world was full of ugliness, Sebastian knew that; ugliness, and ugly people. But you couldn't let them win, those men who took what they wanted with never a thought or care for the ones who suffered and died as a result. You could never stop fighting them, never let them think that what they did was right or somehow justified. Never let them triumph unchallenged.

Dante assigned the hottest circle of hell to those who do nothing in the face of evil. Life shouldn't be about pursuing pleasure or being safe, being comfortable. It's about helping others, and reaching for what's right, and trying to make this a better world.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.

Am I my brother's keeper?

Leave good evidence of yourself. Do good work.

Is Silicon Valley programming apps or are they programming people?" Cooper asks. "They are programming people,

We eagerly signed up for what Silicon Valley was selling, but soon realized that in doing so we were accidently degrading our humanity.

Philip Morris just wanted your lungs," Maher concludes. "The App Store wants your soul.

It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant.

in many cases these addictive properties of new technologies are not accidents, but instead carefully engineered design features.

As the MIT philosopher Kieran Setiya expands in his modern interpretation of the Ethics, if your life consists only of actions whose "worth depends on the existence of problems, difficulties, needs, which these activities aim to solve," you're vulnerable to the existential despair that blooms in response to the inevitable question, Is this all there is to life?

they start with the things they value most, then work backward to ask whether a given new technology performs more harm than good with respect to these values.

THREE DISQUALIFIERS FOR APPLYING THE CRAFTSMAN MINDSET The job presents few opportunities to distinguish yourself by developing relevant skills that are rare and valuable. The job focuses on something you think is useless or perhaps even actively bad for the world. The job forces you to work with people you really dislike.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

Segismundo; que aun en sueños no se pierde el hacer bien.

La cultura è un sistema di limitazioni imposte al comportamento naturale dell'uomo: i non-acculturati, coloro che non sono in grado o rifiutano di interiorizzare i principi morali limitatori, e dunque di autoregolarsi, vengono governati con lo strumento della coercizione.

He's a journalist. They come in two varieties, cynics and liars.

Of course, the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people

but none of whom gave the impression of being willing to put up with questionable behavior from anyone else ever again.

If you're gonna catch criminals, you got to be a bit of one yourself.

It didn't make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don't deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.

the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people